IP Alias replacement

IP Alias replacement

[Jason Joines]

  I was reading the IP Alias Mini-HOWTO at http://tldp.org.  It said, 
"IP Alias has been deprecated in 2.4.x and replaced by a more powerful 
firewalling mechanism."  What is this mechanism?

Thanks,

Jason Joines
Open Source = Open Mind
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Re: IP Alias replacement

[Ramin Dousti]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:21:35PM -0500, Jason Joines wrote:

>  I was reading the IP Alias Mini-HOWTO at http://tldp.org.  It said, 
> "IP Alias has been deprecated in 2.4.x and replaced by a more powerful 
> firewalling mechanism."  What is this mechanism?

I don't know what he means by "more powerful _firewalling_ mechanism" but
iproute2 package which replaces the whole family of ifconfig/arp/route
commands, gives you a neat and more straight forward way of dealing with
the IP aliasing.

Ramin

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jason Joines
> Open Source = Open Mind
> ========================
> 

RE: IP Alias replacement

[Daniel Chemko]

Iproute2

You can learn some about it at lartc.org or other such sites.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Joines [mailto:joines@bus.okstate.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 12:22 PM
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: IP Alias replacement

  I was reading the IP Alias Mini-HOWTO at http://tldp.org.  It said, 
"IP Alias has been deprecated in 2.4.x and replaced by a more powerful 
firewalling mechanism."  What is this mechanism?

Thanks,

Jason Joines
Open Source = Open Mind
========================

Re: IP Alias replacement

[Harish Pillay]

* on the Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:21:35PM -0500, Jason Joines was commenting:
>  I was reading the IP Alias Mini-HOWTO at http://tldp.org.  It said, 
> "IP Alias has been deprecated in 2.4.x and replaced by a more powerful 
> firewalling mechanism."  What is this mechanism?

iprout2 and iptables.

> Thanks,
> 
> Jason Joines
> Open Source = Open Mind
> ========================
> 

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Re: IP Alias replacement

[Jason Joines]

Daniel Chemko wrote:

>Iproute2
>
>You can learn some about it at lartc.org or other such sites.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jason Joines [mailto:joines@bus.okstate.edu] 
>Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 12:22 PM
>To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
>Subject: IP Alias replacement
>
>  I was reading the IP Alias Mini-HOWTO at http://tldp.org.  It said, 
>"IP Alias has been deprecated in 2.4.x and replaced by a more powerful 
>firewalling mechanism."  What is this mechanism?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jason Joines
>Open Source = Open Mind
>========================
>

Thanks, that's exactly what I needed.