Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 7 Jan 2001 02:22:31 -0800 (PST) | From | David Ford <> |
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On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > Virtual IP interfaces in the form of ifname:<number> (e.g. eth:1) IMO > should be deprecated and removed completely in 2.5.x. It's an ugly > external wart that should be removed. > > That said, if this was done -- how would things like routing daemons > and bind cope? Actually, when I think about it they can't cope with > situating like this now: > > tapu:~# ip addr show lo > 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP> mtu 3904 qdisc noqueue > link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 > inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo > inet 10.0.0.1/32 scope global lo
BIND copes just fine, how would it not? I haven't heard any problems with routing daemons either.
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