Pavel Simerda (psimerda@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > From: "Chris Adams" <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > I prefer the "modern" secondaries vs. the old-style eth0:123, although I > > have run into vendor software (such as the Plesk web hosting control > > panel) that can't handle it. I expect if that was the "one true way" in > > some future version of RHEL, they'd adapt. > > AFAIK with the current kernels, the only difference between aliased and > non-aliased secondary addresses is Netlink's 'label' attribute. If you > want to add an address that would be seen through the alias API, you just > need to assign it a label. With libnl3 (used by NetworkManager), this is > a matter of computing it and assigning it via rtnl_link_set_label(). > Currently we don't do that, as this for us this is unnecessary overhead, > and as there is no known demand for it and also because the new-style > multiple address API have been available for years. Yeah - we have support for the label attribute in initscripts for backwards compatibility with ifconfig/prior configuration, but we use ip/netlink for all configuration. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel