IP Aliasing

[Rob]

what is ip/tc???




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> From: netfilter-admin@lists.samba.org
> [mailto:netfilter-admin@lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of s I n
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 1:27 AM
> To: Ramin Alidousti
> Cc: Matthew G. Marsh; David Ford; Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk;
> netfilter@lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: IP Aliasing
>
>
> First of all sorry to enter in your discussion, but I think it is a good
> ideea to have a mailing-list for ip/tc. I am more interested in tc because
> it has great power but is hardly documented and I cannot use all his
> features. I can host a mailing-list on my box concerning ip/tc. If
> interested I'll set it up in a day or two.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> /me
>
>
> > Hi Matthew,
> >
> > Good to see you here. Are there any plans for:
> >
> > 1) A mailinglist on "ip". We get a lot of questions here about
> >    routing and "ip" on this list which is, actually, not the
> >    place for it. If you wish I can help.
> >
> > 2) A book on "tc" and traffic engineering. That part is really
> >    missing.
> >
> > Let me/us know.
> >
> > Ramin
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 04:16:47PM -0500, Matthew G. Marsh wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, David Ford wrote:
> > >
> > > > 'ip' can make your scripts more simple in at least the
> following manners:
> > >
> > > [snip] a very good overview of ip utility.
> > >
> > > > David
> > > >
> > > > Antony Stone wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >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 ?
> > >
> > > Your life will not be simple for long. Especially now that we
> are almost
> > > halfway through the 2.4 usable lifetime and eth#:# was removed
> > > (deprecated) back in the 2.1.xx timeframe.
> > >
> > > eth#:# is deprecated in the kernel. Which means that it does
> not exist.
> > > The hard fact is that there is a wee backwards compatibility mechanism
> > > that sees you type eth#:# and knows to actually assign the IP
> address to
> > > eth# as a correct alias then remembers the fake link of that
> address to
> > > the eth#:# name you gave it. IOW - eth#:# is merely a name
> trick for those
> > > who insist on doing the alias the hard way.
> > >
> > > > >Please tell me if there's something evil about this which I don't
> > > > >understand.
> > >
> > > Nothing major. I just hate seeing people get burned by WYSIWYG
> > > interfaces. Heck - even MS now allows multiple IP addresses native...
> >
> >
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