On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 05:50:10AM -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Thomas Gelf wrote:
> 
> > as far as I can remember (I used it for a really short time) vs1.2.x
> > added an interface alias for each vserver, like:
> > 
> >    eth0:vs1name
> > 
> > maybe there is a limit, a maximal length for alias names hardcoded 
> > somewhere? try it with websrv01, websrv02 and so on!
> 
> At a time long ago in place other than the current Linux-Vserver I seem to
> remember there was a 10 character limit on the vserver names.  There is
> also a nine character or so hard-coded display limit in all things 
> 'ifconfig'-wise.
> 
> And so I've exhausted my memory and knowledge so this may all have 
> changed.

see http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Stuff/VServer-IP-Setup-0.1.txt
(the very last note/paragraph) for details regarding the length, 
and yes, the 'alias' limit seems to be the issue here ...

by default, new style vservers do not use aliases anymore ...

best,
Herbert

> Rod
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