On Wednesday 23 June 2004 8:01 pm, Dick St.Peters wrote: > Antony Stone writes: > > The deprecated way to get multiple IPs results in pseudo-interface names > > such as eth1:0, eth1:1 etc as you discussed. > > Deprecated by whom? http://mirrors.bieringer.de/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/conf-ipv6-in-ipv4-point-to-point-tunnels.html (Section headings 9.3.1.1 & 9.3.1.2) http://seclists.org/lists/honeypots/2004/Jan-Mar/0209.html http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0108.2/0485.html > I use secondary IPs a lot, and I've never before > heard anyone call the standard way of doing them "deprecated". Plus > I, for one, prefer having pseduo-interface labels for manipulating > them. Labels are handy, especially if you use names instead of > numbers. (eth0:bob is as valid as eth0:1.) That's what the "ip link set <device> name <name>" is for now :) > > The recommended way to assign > > multiple IPs on one interface (ip addr add a.b.c.d dev eth1) simply > > results in multiple IPs on the interface - no strange new names appear, > > therefore I think it is a much more obvious and clear way of doing it. > > This is probably a case where context and background determine what is > more "obvious" and "clear". Agreed. Antony. -- Ramdisk is not an installation procedure. Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.
