Re: Aliases

David Ford (david@blue-labs.org)
Sat, 18 Aug 2001 15:25:31 -0400


>
>
>For various reasons interfaces aliases are deprecated. The recommended
>way of doing things these days is just adding more addresses to an
>interface with the ip(8) program from the iproute package. It works like:
>
> ip addr add 192.168.2.0/24 broadcast 192.168.2.255 scope host dev eth0
>

You can shorten this to:

ip a a 192.168.2.0/24 brd + dev eth0

..and leaving the scope global [by default] which makes it fully reachable.

David

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