On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Jonathan Billings <billings@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On Nov 2, 2015, at 2:40 PM, Mike - st257 <silvertip257@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > But when I try to remove it, I'm either trying to do something _actually_
> > not supported or I don't have the proper syntax to accomplish what I
> want.
>
> It doesn’t look like ‘ip link’ has the syntax to remove an alias, but it
> can be done via sysfs:
>
;-)
Nice.
[Forest for the trees!] I didn't think of sysfs because I was fixated on
the ip link utility.
Thanks Jonathan!
>
> # ip link show dev lo
> 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode
> DEFAULT group default
> link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
> # ip link set dev lo alias loopback
> # ip link show dev lo
> 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode
> DEFAULT group default
> link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
> alias loopback
> # echo > /sys/class/net/lo/ifalias
> # ip link show dev lo
> 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode
> DEFAULT group default
> link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
>
> It also can be set there too:
>
> # echo hicentos > /sys/class/net/lo/ifalias
> # ip link show dev lo
> 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode
> DEFAULT group default
> link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
> alias hicentos
>
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>
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