On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Seth Vidal wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Dan Williams wrote: > > > > > Use /sbin/ip already :) AFAIK virtual interfaces are completely > > obsoleted by mutiple addresses per interface, which /sbin/ip (via > > netlink) makes entirely available. > > > > Is there some reason the ethX:X configuration is desirable over just > > adding multiple addresses to the interface? > > > > Sure - b/c I could just drop an ifcfg-eth0:0 file in > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and it just worked. :) > > I didn't say it was the only way to do it just that it worked well and afaict > still works well. > I'd like to note that when you're in a configuration managed environment like Fedora Infrastructure is (via puppet). This is an easy and simple thing to do. If anything goes wrong, you either look to the logs to find out why the file isn't there, or you look in the file to see why its malformed. Config files are quite nice in managed or large environments. -Mike -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
