Minimal install diff from F16 to F19 (TC6)

[Pavel Simerda]

> From: "Chris Adams" <linux at cmadams.net>
> I prefer the "modern" secondaries vs. the old-style eth0:123, although I
> have run into vendor software (such as the Plesk web hosting control
> panel) that can't handle it.  I expect if that was the "one true way" in
> some future version of RHEL, they'd adapt.

AFAIK with the current kernels, the only difference between aliased and non-aliased secondary addresses is Netlink's 'label' attribute. If you want to add an address that would be seen through the alias API, you just need to assign it a label. With libnl3 (used by NetworkManager), this is a matter of computing it and assigning it via rtnl_link_set_label(). Currently we don't do that, as this for us this is unnecessary overhead, and as there is no known demand for it and also because the new-style multiple address API have been available for years.

Pavel