Dave Warchol wrote: > I will still need to define the device alias, correct? > Thanks > Dave > The alias is optional. It's useful only if you're using older programs pre-iproute2. It doesn't serve any purpose in the new system in my experience. The alias can NOT used in conjunction with netfilter. If you define eth0, eth0:0, and eth0:1, then netfilter just interprets them all as eth0.
