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Re: multiple IP# for one IF ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Sat May 6 16:05:37 1995
From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
To: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 20:15:36 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu,
herp@wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at
In-Reply-To: <m0s7lIv-000H5nC@ns.crynwr.com> from "Russell Nelson" at May 6, 95 10:58:00 am
> P.S. The documentation doesn't mention this, but netstat needs read access
> to /dev/kmem to print out the alias list for an interface. You can
> probably do something like this:
>
> chgrp kmem /dev/kmem netstat
> chmod 664 /dev/kmem
^^^^^
chmod 660 /dev/kmem
NEVER NEVER give world read to kmem!
Dummy devices do all ipalias can do btw 8). I may well add ipalias as a compile
option some point in the future though