On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:21:35PM -0500, Jason Joines wrote: > I was reading the IP Alias Mini-HOWTO at http://tldp.org. It said, > "IP Alias has been deprecated in 2.4.x and replaced by a more powerful > firewalling mechanism." What is this mechanism? I don't know what he means by "more powerful _firewalling_ mechanism" but iproute2 package which replaces the whole family of ifconfig/arp/route commands, gives you a neat and more straight forward way of dealing with the IP aliasing. Ramin > > Thanks, > > Jason Joines > Open Source = Open Mind > ======================== >