Hello list, Just a question: I have a NIC eth0 with address 10.0.0.1/24 I want to add an ip address to that NIC. Both ways work: ip a a 10.0.0.2/32 dev eth0 ip a a 10.0.0.2/24 dev eth0 Is there anyhow some or other difference between the two? And is one of the two ways preferred? R. -- ___________________________________________________________________ It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak aloud and remove all doubt. +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Richard Lucassen, Utrecht | | Public key and email address: | | http://www.lucassen.org/mail-pubkey.html | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html