On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 16:09 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Ola Thoresen (redhat@olen.net) said:
It is at least important to be able to add multiple addresses to one (physical) interface. I personally don't like the old eth0:0 eth0:1 (...), but prefer the new iproute2 style, but I guess I can live with aliases as long as it is easy to add/remove them.
Aliases (eth0:0) need to die. Of course, I've been saying that for years and haven't killed them yet. :/
SUSE moved to iproute2 style aliases awhile back and it would be nice to have one less difference in distributions (especially for me, since I write books covering Linux distros).
The only drawback is you can no longer depend on /sbin/ifconfig to show you the all the IPs bound to a NIC. This is especially jarring for sys admins moving from a-flavor-of-UNIX to Linux. It would be nice if ifconfig displayed iproute2 style aliases.
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