Re: IP Alias replacement

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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
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