Re: Add an IP alias to ethernet interface
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 19:34 -0400, Bryan Kadzban wrote: Andrew Beverley wrote: Personally though, I think it would be useful to still include the ALIAS directive (it's only a few extra line of code). It may only be a few lines of code, but it's another entire service script, 90-some percent of which is copied from our existing script. ;-) There wouldn't be any need for an extra script. Although I wrote the second script, I realised that it was virtually identical to the existing one. Therefore, you can just add the few lines of code that deal with an alias argument into the existing ip4-static. I'll do this if you want, although those few lines can just be copied from the script that was originally sent. snip Plus the net-tools tarball is six years old. That's why iproute2 was created: net-tools wasn't being updated to take advantage of all the new kernel features that have been added to the networking stack in the past six years. True, but I still find myself using ifconfig because it's easier to remember the syntax :-) Andy Beverley -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Add an IP alias to ethernet interface
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Andrew Beverley wrote: Therefore, you can just add the few lines of code that deal with an alias argument into the existing ip4-static. Oh, duh. You're right, this would work. True, but I still find myself using ifconfig because it's easier to remember the syntax :-) I would say that it's easier for me to remember ip's syntax: there aren't tons of options, for instance. I think it's just inertia. (I didn't use iproute2 for a while, myself, even after the book started installing it. But once I started using it, it got a lot easier than I remember ifconfig being.) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGZ+bsS5vET1Wea5wRA5Z0AKCKOT5YB9SVFz9xHDuc5+8vFrU4uwCgm5Jl Dj4vBr7dkAKE5kO14b1lUZY= =cYWx -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Add an IP alias to ethernet interface
El Jueves, 7 de Junio de 2007 05:00, Bryan Kadzban escribió: this list whose address isn't resolving again. It seems like it's taking these messages about a half hour to get delivered. The message I'm replying to was sent at 21:42 EDT, but wasn't delivered to my mail server until 22:04 EDT. Might be worth double-checking out what's going on with postfix.) That's a recurring problem not solved yet :-/ http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2007-April/059300.html -- Manuel Canales Esparcia Usuario de LFS nº2886: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org LFS en castellano: http://www.escomposlinux.org/lfs-es http://www.lfs-es.info TLDP-ES: http://es.tldp.org -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Add an IP alias to ethernet interface
On Jun 6, 2007, at 6:34 PM, Bryan Kadzban wrote: I suspect the alias option exists in ip for compatibility with ifconfig, and no other reason. But I don't know that for sure. I believe that's correct. In the past the kernel supported aliases with independent statistics and the like, but that hasn't been true for years. Modern kernels don't treat aliases interfaces any different than secondary addresses on the main interface -- both interface statistics and iptables traversal treat all aliases just like the main interface, and the alternate label is only maintained to support legacy configurations and tools. Zach smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
