Re: again problem with alias / virtual interface

[Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@pbl.ca>]

Michael Sconzo wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:34:29PM +0200, Marco Colombo wrote:
> 
> 
>>But the whole idea of 'virtual interfaces' is obsolete.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).
>>
> What is the proper way to do it, tried poking around on google, maybe
> 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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