Comment 9 for bug 1763534

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1763534] Re: ifconfig -s (or -a -s) only outputs 8 characters of the interface name, when interfaces are 10+ characters.

On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 12:51:49AM -0000, Mike Pontillo wrote:
> Note: if you are using a Xenial based MAAS that has not been patched to
> use `ip` instead, and you use it to commission on Bionic, it will fail
> due to this issue.

Indeed. Is this something that would be fixed in an SRU of maas to xenial
in the near term? I think that is ultimately the right solution, but if
it's not going to land soon, we would certainly look at restoring ifconfig
compatibility.