Aliases on VLAN interfaces

nullguid · n00b Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Tyumen, Russia

Hello, maybe I'm doing something wrong, but:

I need three aliases on eth0.505 vlan interfaces, I did this entry into /etc/conf.d/net:

UberLord · Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 8:55 am Post subject:

See, thanks to the mindset of ifconfig everyone is so obsessed with "aliases". Don't think alias, think more addresses on one interface.

Once you start think that you start thinking "Why is ifconfig only showing me one address?". The answer is to use iproute2 like so

nullguid · n00b Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Tyumen, Russia

Hey, I'm not so stupid

That's that I need (and get with

nullguid · n00b Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Tyumen, Russia

I need three addresses on interface, what am I doing wrong with /etc/conf.d/net ? (or what is gentoo doing wrong)

UberLord · Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:37 am Post subject:

emerge iproute2

and be done with it!
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nullguid · n00b Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Tyumen, Russia

Ah, thanks, now I set that I either don't understand ifconfig or it doesn't work properly.

nullguid · n00b Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Tyumen, Russia

Just found that ifconfig is meant to obsolete. OMG

UberLord · Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 10:03 am Post subject:

Oh it's simple - ifconfig requires aliases for >1 address per interface. And you can only alias physical interfaces, not virtual ones like vlan.

iproute2 gets around this limitation, so if everyone just stopped thinking alias then we'ed all get long just nicely.

baselayout does the best it can with ifconfig, but it can do so much more with iproute2 we now prefer it in baselayout-1.12
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