net: update documentation ip aliases
This documentation is old. Add a short note to describe why aliases are no long necessary, and remove the old contact/edit info. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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IP-Aliasing:
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IP-aliases are additional IP-addresses/masks hooked up to a base
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interface by adding a colon and a string when running ifconfig.
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IP-aliases are an obsolete way to manage multiple IP-addresses/masks
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per interface. Newer tools such as iproute2 support multiple
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address/prefixes per interface, but aliases are still supported
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for backwards compatibility.
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An alias is formed by adding a colon and a string when running ifconfig.
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This string is usually numeric, but this is not a must.
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IP-Aliases are avail if CONFIG_INET (`standard' IPv4 networking)
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is configured in the kernel.
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o Alias creation.
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Alias creation is done by 'magic' interface naming: eg. to create a
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200.1.1.1 alias for eth0 ...
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If the base device is shut down the added aliases will be deleted
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too.
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Contact
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Please finger or e-mail me:
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Juan Jose Ciarlante <jjciarla@raiz.uncu.edu.ar>
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Updated by Erik Schoenfelder <schoenfr@gaertner.DE>
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