feature request: additional IPs assign to real device via ip addr add

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Thu Aug 21 01:28:30 UTC 2003


Hello!

I would like a feature for setting up additional IPs to a real device by
just giving it a list of IPs. Well, I know it is possible to use aliased
devices, but that is not often neccessary, even more work. And those aliased
devices are not usable by iptables rules as device instructions.

In /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup the real device is already set up by
the command "ip addr add". So it would be nice to give the script just a
list of IPs to be added to the real device. It could be done by a variable
in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX in which the administrator will
just put the space separated list of additional IPs.

What do you think about this?

Regards

Alexander


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