I have no idea who wrote that, that's misleading and will be removed. Ifupdown supports both aliases and multiple addresses just fine, doesn't use ifconfig and works around the abovementioned bug in iproute.
On 26/07/2013, Christoph Anton Mitterer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 13:20 +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: >> But I'd like to know the version of >> ifupdown we're talking about. > I'm having everything at sid, thus ifupdown is 0.7.43. > > >> No. It's an improper recommendation. Ifupdown supports both multiple >> addresses and aliases, there's no need in manually adding them. > At least that's what they suggest here: > http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration#Multiple_IP_addresses_on_One_Interface > > Cheers, > Chris. > -- WBR, Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

