Andy wrote: >I was incorrect, it does work. However: > >1. It uses the old style aliasing scheme as used by ifconfig. > >2. It only works because the ip command just ignores the :n on the >interface name.
You are correct! "ip addr show" only shows the interfaces as eth0 ignoring the ":0" etc. and ifconfig doesn't show the other ip's at all. So your solutions is better. Regards, Sebastian Homepage: http://www.secure-slinux.org -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page