Yesterday, I was upgrading packages and came across NEWS.gz in netbase 5.4:netbase (5.4) unstable; urgency=mediumStopped recommending ifupdown because nowadays there are options.  For the time being it will still be installed by default because it  has important priority. (Closes: #824884)What other options are there? I looked up the bug mentioned therein but found nothing about any other tools. Can somebody share what tools the DD/DM might be talking about?I use ifup and ifdown to clear any temporary ethernet networking issues and it works most of the time:$ sudo ifdown eth0This clears all and any dhcp leases $ sudo ifup eth0 After half a minute to a minute, do this to make sure you get a new lease and are in business. At times, when I'm not using Internet for much, I do use $ ping debian.org in one of the VT (virtual Console Terminals) to make sure things are moving along.
What other options besides ifupdown are there for general users/sys-admin?
debian;networking
The two other main networking tools nowadays on Linux are Network Manager and systemd-networkd.ifupdown isn't going away yet, the change in netbase is just cleanup: there's no reason for it to recommend networking tools (considering recommendations as defined in Debian Policy), and removing the recommendation is safe because default installations still end up with ifupdown installed. Cleaning such dependencies up will simplify possible future switches to other default tools.