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[Robert Schweikert <rjschwei@xxxxxxxx>]

On 12/19/2017 10:14 AM, Scott Moser wrote:
> The goal is to get off of net-tools (ifconfig and route) and over to 'ip'.
> For freebsd and other things that do not have that, we'll have to keep
> working.
> 
> Ini python3, 'ipaddress'  is built in and we may be able to utilize it, but
> I'm not interested in adding the python2 dependency.

Does that imply that as long we support python2 we should shell out,
i.e. use

if util.which('netstat'):
    return _route_info_from_netstat()
elif util.which('ip'):
    return _route_info_from_ip()

which is the direction I am working on now. I have the device
information collection under control, working on the route information now.

This direction would:
  - avoid adding any new dependency for python2
  - having to differentiate dependencies based on python version
  - handle the freebsd case transparently

Thanks,
Robert



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Robert Schweikert                   MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU
Distinguished Architect                       LINUX
Team Lead Public Cloud
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