From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 17:47:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 17:47:46 -0400 Received: from u-170-19.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de ([62.180.19.170]:24706 "EHLO dea.waldorf-gmbh.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 17:47:38 -0400 Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 23:45:11 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: David Ford Cc: Justin Guyett , Jim Roland , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Aliases Message-ID: <20010818234511.A17775@bacchus.dhis.org> In-Reply-To: <00df01c127a8$c354ad20$bb1cfa18@JimWS> <20010818143232.A11687@bacchus.dhis.org> <3B7EC12B.4010204@blue-labs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B7EC12B.4010204@blue-labs.org>; from david@blue-labs.org on Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 03:25:31PM -0400 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 03:25:31PM -0400, David Ford wrote: > >For various reasons interfaces aliases are deprecated. The recommended > >way of doing things these days is just adding more addresses to an > >interface with the ip(8) program from the iproute package. It works like: > > > > ip addr add 192.168.2.0/24 broadcast 192.168.2.255 scope host dev eth0 > > You can shorten this to: > > ip a a 192.168.2.0/24 brd + dev eth0 > > ..and leaving the scope global [by default] which makes it fully reachable. I did not mean to reproduce the whole over 50 pages of docs documentation in my posting. Ralf