On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:34:29PM +0200, Marco Colombo wrote:
What is the proper way to do it, tried poking around on google, maybeBut the whole idea of 'virtual interfaces' is obsolete. The linux kernel (and thus iptables) knows only of physical interfaces and ip addresses. You can set a label for each ip address, but that's only a trick to make the old ifconfig work. Labels are, well, just labels, the kernel doesn't need them at all. If you're using 'ip' to configure ip addresses, you can forget about labels (but ifconfig won't work).
I'm just looking for the wrong thing. Or is it even a proper way to do
it? I have a box that is using kernel bridging so I have an IP on the bridged interface, but would like to have it accessable via another IP as well.
IMHO, the proper way of doing it is using configuration files. And let the init.d scripts configure your interfaces (majority of which still use good old ifconfig).
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