Re: IP_ALIAS in 2.4.x gone?

Alan Olsen
2001-06-20T22:01:15Z

I found the problem...

IP_ALIAS is no longer needed in the config. I screwed up the init script
configs for it so it did not work as expected.

The documentation does not reflect that the alias behaviour is on by
default.

I will submit a patch for the docs that reflects this so others will not
get confused by that.

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Alan Olsen wrote:

>
> Has the IP_ALIAS functionality been replaced by something else in the
> 2.4.x kernels?
>
> Documentation/networking/alias.txt seems to imply that it still does, but
> the string IP_ALIAS does not exist anywhere else in the entire source
> tree. (Unless you count the default configs for non-i86 architectures.
>
> There is a "virtual server" option in the kernel that ships with Redhat,
> but I assume that this is a patch for something Redhat specific. (It is
> not an option in 2.4.5, unless I am missing something.)
>
> How is binding multiple IPs to a single ethernet card *supposed* to be
> handled under 2.4.x? If the IP_ALIAS option is no longer valid, then the
> alias.txt doc should be changed to reflect the new option.
>
> Thanks!
>
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