Re: Aliases

[David Ford <david@blue-labs.org>]

Try before you buy.



# ip a a 192.168.0.0/24 brd + dev eth0
# ip r a 192.168.0.1/32 via 208.179.59.1 dev eth0

# ip r g 192.168.0.1
192.168.0.1 via 208.179.59.1 dev eth0  src 208.179.59.2
    cache  mtu 1500 advmss 1460

# ip r g 192.168.0.2
192.168.0.2 dev eth0  src 192.168.0.0
    cache  mtu 1500 advmss 1460

David

David Lang wrote:

>the problem with adding an entire netblock to an interface is that you
>frequently have a gateway on that netblock that belongs to another
>machine so you want to add 253 out of 256 addresses to your machine.
>
>how do you do that easily?
>
>example gateway is 192.168.1.1 and you want the rest of the 192.168.1.x
>network aliased on the machine.
>