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Re: ifconfig alias (Was: Re: multiple IP# for one IF ?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Weller)
Mon May 8 07:59:47 1995
Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 12:06:44 +0200 (MSZ)
From: Michael Weller <eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9505070200.AA23595@pollux.exp-math.uni-essen.de>
> To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
> From: hpa@asgard.yggdrasil.com (H. Peter Anvin)
> Subject: Re: multiple IP# for one IF ?
[...]
> You need an explicit `arp -s' command to advertise it. It is,
> admittedly, rather klugy. I think ifconfig alias and the dummy
> interface both have their uses; in fact, with ifconfig alias there is
> no longer the need for the sometimes requested patch for multiple
> dummy interfaces.
Hmm.. I didn't ever try ifconfig alias, and do actually not have any use
for it as my linux machine is more or less isolated. But if it does
what I expect it to do, and makes multiple dummy interfaces obsolete, I'd
expect it to make the dummy interface obsolete at all as you could just alias
loopback. Or would this cause some weird problem with netmasks?
Michael.
(eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de or eowmob@pollux.exp-math.uni-essen.de
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