Fedora 7

[Michael Wiktowy]

On 1/5/07, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 17:09 +0100, Ola Thoresen wrote:
> > It is at least important to be able to add multiple addresses to one
> > (physical) interface.
>
> Yep!  That's obviously required.
>
> > I personally don't like the old eth0:0 eth0:1 (...), but prefer the new
>
> That format is vile.
>
> > iproute2 style, but I guess I can live with aliases as long as it is
> > easy to add/remove them.

Could someone illuminate me on the non-vile iproute2 style of doing
this (give me the right jargon to Google)? Is it that you can call the
aliases anything you want with a mapping/iface combo in
/etc/network/interfaces?
Apparently, I was being vile and didn't know it and want to reform.

/Mike