2nd IP address on an interface

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 08/29/2014 01:48 AM, James Hogarth wrote:
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>
> On 29 Aug 2014 01:32, "Robert Moskowitz" <rgm at htt-consult.com 
> <mailto:rgm at htt-consult.com>> wrote:
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> > you are right.  ifconfig USE to be able to do this, but now it is 
> just a shell?  over ip and so...
> >
>
> Your memory isn't quite accurate... ifconfig has never handled 
> multiple IP addresses on an interface with aliases being used to 
> create separate virtual interfaces instead.
>

Well recently I was going by:

http://www.tecmint.com/create-multiple-ip-addresses-to-one-single-network-interface/

Which show ifconfig listing all the ethn:m interfaces.  Also I use to do 
a lot of vlaning when I ran radvd on linux before my firewall supported 
it.  Now maybe that was back in Centos 4 days.

> It is also not a shell over ip but rather a completely different 
> package with a completely different development history...
>
> This is just yet another example of why net-tools has been deprecated 
> a long time and that people really need to break their muscle memory 
> and use iproute2 ...
>

Working on it.  Really.

> Is net-tools still in the base fedora install? Probably long since 
> time to pull it if so... I know el7 doesn't include it in base or core 
> package groups anymore at least..
>


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