Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Jan 1998 19:27:53 +0300 | From | "A.N.Kuznetsov" <> | Subject | Re: missing aliased interfaces in /proc/net/dev |
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In article <199801182157.VAA00228@killala.koala.ie> you wrote: : > I'd write it into a README, but it seems to be not urgent. Actually, : > this approach is not new at all. It is parallel to Linux IPv6 and : > it looks similar to sanitized 4.4BSD.
: i have not used 2.1.x because i cannot find documentation which explains how : this stuff works. it may not be urgent to *you*, but i would appreciate *some* : documentation
From the viewpoint of basic applications nothing was changed. The things became only a bit more natural, sort of "ifconfig eth0:0- ..." is replaced with "ifconfig eth0:0 down".
They are not equivalent only from the viewpoint of so-called "advanced applications": routing daemons etc. Moreover, most of them are not affected, if they do not want to use advanced API. F.e. gated-3.5, as distributed by merit, and its brothers must continue to work as they always worked.
:-) Well, if you want to know "HOW" this stuff works, source is the best and exhaustive documentation.
Alexey Kuznetsov
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