Jasper Spaans wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:57:36PM -0700, streeterk wrote: > > > What happened to ip_alias. I found some reference to it being replaced in > > 2.4 Kernels, but replaced with what? Anyone know of some good > > documentation on this subject?? > > It has disappeared, however, its functionality hasn't (at least, partially). [--snip--] > (Well, some pitfalls do exist, you cannot firewall on these interfaces > anymore, however, you'll have to rewrite your rules anyway because of the > transition to iptables, so that shouldn't be a problem) Guys, excuse my ignorance, but can you point me to the original source of that information? It's the very first time I heard of this and actually I am still able to use something like 'ifconfig eth0:0 x.x.x.x up'. And AFAIK it was never possible to use alias interfaces in firewalling. Maybe I missed some important information for years? (not impossible IMO ;-) Juri
