From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Aliases
Date: 19 Aug 2001 00:04:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <oupy9ohqb31.fsf@pigdrop.muc.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00df01c127a8$c354ad20$bb1cfa18@JimWS.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108180245070.27721-100000@kobayashi.soze.net.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20010818143232.A11687@bacchus.dhis.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
In-Reply-To: Ralf Baechle's message of "18 Aug 2001 14:44:48 +0200"
Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de> writes:
>
> For various reasons interfaces aliases are deprecated. The recommended
> way of doing things these days is just adding more addresses to an
> interface with the ip(8) program from the iproute package. It works like:
>
> ip addr add 192.168.2.0/24 broadcast 192.168.2.255 scope host dev eth0
Newer ifconfig also supports "add" for IPv4 (older supported it only for
v6)
The problem of the original poster is also likely to have an too old ifconfig;
older ones had some O(n^2) algorithms with hurt with many interfaces.
-Andi
next parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-18 22:04 UTC|newest]
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2001-08-18 22:04 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2001-08-16 21:11 Aliases dmaynor
2001-08-17 2:48 ` Aliases dlang
2001-08-18 5:43 ` Aliases Jim Roland
2001-08-18 10:30 ` Aliases Justin Guyett
2001-08-18 12:32 ` Aliases Ralf Baechle
2001-08-18 12:57 ` Aliases David Lang
2001-08-18 19:29 ` Aliases David Ford
2001-08-18 19:25 ` Aliases David Ford
2001-08-18 21:45 ` Aliases Ralf Baechle
2001-08-20 1:03 ` Aliases David Lang
2001-08-20 2:29 ` Aliases Justin Guyett
2001-08-18 12:43 ` Aliases Michael Clark
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