From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Juri Haberland Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 08:20:41 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] ip_alias?? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Jasper Spaans wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:57:36PM -0700, streeterk wrote: > > > What happened to ip_alias. I found some reference to it being replaced in > > 2.4 Kernels, but replaced with what? Anyone know of some good > > documentation on this subject?? > > It has disappeared, however, its functionality hasn't (at least, partially). [--snip--] > (Well, some pitfalls do exist, you cannot firewall on these interfaces > anymore, however, you'll have to rewrite your rules anyway because of the > transition to iptables, so that shouldn't be a problem) Guys, excuse my ignorance, but can you point me to the original source of that information? It's the very first time I heard of this and actually I am still able to use something like 'ifconfig eth0:0 x.x.x.x up'. And AFAIK it was never possible to use alias interfaces in firewalling. Maybe I missed some important information for years? (not impossible IMO ;-) Juri _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/