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Commit 58092d1e authored by Stephen Hemminger's avatar Stephen Hemminger Committed by David S. Miller
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net: update documentation ip aliases 



This documentation is old.  Add a short note to describe why aliases
are no long necessary, and remove the old contact/edit info.

Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 71b3346d

Documentation/networking/alias.txt

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IP-Aliasing:

============



IP-aliases are additional IP-addresses/masks hooked up to a base 

interface by adding a colon and a string when running ifconfig. 

This string is usually numeric, but this is not a must.



IP-Aliases are avail if CONFIG_INET (`standard' IPv4 networking) 

is configured in the kernel.

IP-aliases are an obsolete way to manage multiple IP-addresses/masks

per interface. Newer tools such as iproute2 support multiple

address/prefixes per interface, but aliases are still supported

for backwards compatibility.



An alias is formed by adding a colon and a string when running ifconfig.

This string is usually numeric, but this is not a must.



o Alias creation.

  Alias creation is done by 'magic' interface naming: eg. to create a
@@ -38,16 +38,3 @@ o Relationship with main device 


  If the base device is shut down the added aliases will be deleted 

  too.
 




Contact

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Please finger or e-mail me:

   Juan Jose Ciarlante <jjciarla@raiz.uncu.edu.ar>



Updated by Erik Schoenfelder <schoenfr@gaertner.DE>



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