IP Aliasing

[Antony Stone]

At 14:54 on  3 Aug 01, David Ford wrote about Re: IP Aliasing:

> Antony Stone wrote:
> 
> >Why is it deprecated ?   What's wrong with it, or, what's better about
> >using iproute2 ?
> 
> Because "eth0" is an interface, 1.1.1.1 is information attached to that
> interface.
> 
> There is no "eth0:1", it's a hackery and completely useless, void of
> information.
> 
> iproute2 tools are much more powerful, it's like comparing a soap box
> gocart with a dodge viper (without the fancy exterior).
> 
> ip can do so much more than ifconfig, route, and arp all put together,
> it's amazing.
> 
> Try out the tool and just for example, type "ip r s t 0", that's route
> show table 0.  Did you realize you had that many internal routes?  It's
> like a box of ABC cubes compared to a radio shack advanced electronics
> kit.
> 
> You can do -everything- with iproute2.

So, you're saying that iproute2 can do so much more.... which I might or 
might not want ?

If I don't need the Dodge Viper, or the electronics kit (or I don't want 
to spend the time learning how to do the basics with something so 
complex), is there anything actually wrong about sticking with the gocart 
and the ABC blocks ?

If all I'm trying to do is assign multiple addresses to a single physical 
interface, is there anything bad about just using ifconfig eth0:1 etc and 
keeping my life simple ?

Please tell me if there's something evil about this which I don't 
understand.



Antony.