IP Aliasing... strangeness...
kernel@draper.net
Mon, 22 Dec 1997 21:44:24 -0600
On Mon, Dec 22, 1997 at 01:18:41PM -0300, JuanJo Ciarlante wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, A.N.Kuznetsov wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > > So how am I supposed to use ip aliasing in the recent kernels? ;)
> >
> > Exactly as you did it before.
> >
> > CONFIG_NET_ALIAS
> > CONFIG_IP_ALIAS
> >
> > Alexey Kuznetsov
> ... with the follow exception :) CONFIG_IP_ALIAS [Y] (not module)
>
True... also it appears that it is no longer possible to "ifconfig dev:n down"
without also taking down every alias device associated with the real
interface... i.e. ifconfig eth0:3 down disables eth0, eth0:1, eth0:2, etc.
This via netools 1.41 compiled against the 2.1.72 tree.