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From: David Ford <david+hb@blue-labs.org>
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The iproute2 documentation states that these are deprecated.  Would 
somebody give me some pointers or a short explanation why they are 
deprecated and if there is a replacement method, would you mind 
mentioning it?

Thank you,
David