On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 16:09 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Ola Thoresen (redhat@xxxxxxxx) said: > > It is at least important to be able to add multiple addresses to one > > (physical) interface. > > I personally don't like the old eth0:0 eth0:1 (...), but prefer the new > > iproute2 style, but I guess I can live with aliases as long as it is > > easy to add/remove them. > > Aliases (eth0:0) need to die. Of course, I've been saying that for years > and haven't killed them yet. :/ SUSE moved to iproute2 style aliases awhile back and it would be nice to have one less difference in distributions (especially for me, since I write books covering Linux distros). The only drawback is you can no longer depend on /sbin/ifconfig to show you the all the IPs bound to a NIC. This is especially jarring for sys admins moving from a-flavor-of-UNIX to Linux. It would be nice if ifconfig displayed iproute2 style aliases. Dax Kelson Guru Labs -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
