On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 08:29:23PM -0400, David Ford wrote:
> Please bear in mind, the form of ethN:Nis deprecated for Linux. It
> hasn't been dropped in 2.5 but is likely to be dropped in a soon to come
> development cycle.
So how do they do it now ? ifconfig -alias as everyone else or did they
decide something even more incompatible with the rest of the world ?
> Second note, most operating systems will use the
> first assigned address of an interface (the primary address) if the
> program has not explicitly bound itself to a particular IP.
Actually it should depend on the routes being set (and yes, by default
it's the first interface). But doing : route add 192.168.0.9 eth0:0 is
valid on Linux.
-- Renaud
