streeterk wrote: > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/IP-Alias > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Juri Haberland" <haberland@xxxxxxxx> > To: "Daniel Bergqvist" <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: <LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 1:56 AM > Subject: Re: [LARTC] ip_alias?? > > > Daniel Bergqvist wrote: > > > > > > http://defiant.coinet.com/iproute2/ip-cref/node18.html > > > > Thanks, Daniel, but I meant the information about that ip_alias is > > deprecated in kernel 2.4 :-) Thanks, but that leads to another question: What are the benefits of using ip to assign another IP address to an existing interface instead of using ifconfig? Juri