On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Dan Williams wrote:
Use /sbin/ip already :) AFAIK virtual interfaces are completely
obsoleted by mutiple addresses per interface, which /sbin/ip (via
netlink) makes entirely available.
Is there some reason the ethX:X configuration is desirable over just
adding multiple addresses to the interface?
Sure - b/c I could just drop an ifcfg-eth0:0 file in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and it just worked. :)
I didn't say it was the only way to do it just that it worked well and
afaict still works well.
-sv