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Re: ifconfig aliases
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Mon Mar 6 17:51:10 1995
From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
To: elias@power.net (Elias Levy)
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 16:30:48 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950306030253.4118A-100000@touchstone.power.net> from "Elias Levy" at Mar 6, 95 03:04:58 am
> Is there any reason why we can implement interface aliases
> like in SunOs (or is it Solaris?)? Just wondering, since I was setting
> up a machine with multiple httpd server that bind to different addresses
> using the dummy modules. The sun aproach seems much clearner tough.
Go ahead - make my day. Its all semantics and what ifconfig chooses to show
you really. For internal speed the BSD approach is not so good - it has to
search a linked list of addresses for each port each time.
Alan
