> A buddy and I have noticed that network IP aliasing seems to have
> disappeared in 2.2.
No. It's there. I'm pretty sure it's there since I have few systems with 3-10
ip adressed on one Ethertnet card here with kernel 2.2.0 :-)
> The Tk kernel config script and master .config files still reference
> this very important feature (CONFIG_IP_ALIAS and CONFIG_NET_ALIAS), but
> ip_alias.c is gone from the source and makefiles.
Linux network subsystem was redesigned once more and ip_alias.c is not needed
anymore.
> Is this intentional? IP aliasing is a vital feature for machines such
> as our plant gateway/nameserver, life would be -very- awkward without
> this networking option...
It's there.
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