starting Fedora Server SIG

[Seth Vidal]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Dan Williams wrote:

>
> Use /sbin/ip already :)  AFAIK virtual interfaces are completely
> obsoleted by mutiple addresses per interface, which /sbin/ip (via
> netlink) makes entirely available.
>
> Is there some reason the ethX:X configuration is desirable over just
> adding multiple addresses to the interface?
>

Sure - b/c I could just drop an ifcfg-eth0:0 file in 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and it just worked. :)

I didn't say it was the only way to do it just that it worked well and 
afaict still works well.

-sv