On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 08:52:35AM +1100, Alan Vink wrote: > "IP Alias has been deprecated in 2.4.x and replaced by a more powerful > firewalling mechanism" > > *Could someone shed some light on this?
It sounds a bit strange to me that aliases has been replaced with a firewalling mechanism, but I don't know if its correct or not. > *Is there a better way to achieving this without aliasing? Don't take this as an authoritative answer, its probably not be accurate. I think aliases have been replaced, and emulated. You can use the same tools with the same syntax as before (ifconfig eth0:0 ...), but now you are adding an IP address to a device with a label, you're no longer creating an alias (and a new device). You can also do it the "new" way with iproute2. (The docs for iproute2 don't use the term alias except to say that the term isn't quite appropriate for adding ip addresses to a device) Aliases were virtual devices. When you created a new alias, you created a new device, you were not just adding a new IP address to the same device. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
