Commit 58092d1e authored by Stephen Hemminger's avatar Stephen Hemminger Committed by David S. Miller

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: default avatarStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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IP-Aliasing: IP-Aliasing:
============ ============
IP-aliases are additional IP-addresses/masks hooked up to a base IP-aliases are an obsolete way to manage multiple IP-addresses/masks
interface by adding a colon and a string when running ifconfig. per interface. Newer tools such as iproute2 support multiple
This string is usually numeric, but this is not a must. address/prefixes per interface, but aliases are still supported
for backwards compatibility.
IP-Aliases are avail if CONFIG_INET (`standard' IPv4 networking)
is configured in the kernel.
An alias is formed by adding a colon and a string when running ifconfig.
This string is usually numeric, but this is not a must.
o Alias creation. o Alias creation.
Alias creation is done by 'magic' interface naming: eg. to create a Alias creation is done by 'magic' interface naming: eg. to create a
...@@ -38,16 +38,3 @@ o Relationship with main device ...@@ -38,16 +38,3 @@ o Relationship with main device
If the base device is shut down the added aliases will be deleted If the base device is shut down the added aliases will be deleted
too. too.
Contact
-------
Please finger or e-mail me:
Juan Jose Ciarlante <jjciarla@raiz.uncu.edu.ar>
Updated by Erik Schoenfelder <schoenfr@gaertner.DE>
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