[PATCH] remove obsolete(?) code that handles net if aliases
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Tue Jun 20 23:35:50 UTC 2006
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 6:21 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > Oh you can still do aliases. Try "ifconfig eth1:1 192.168.255.42".
> > But that doesn't show up in /proc/net/dev, there seems to be some
> > kind of ioctl done to detect that. (Or at least in Red Hat 9 is
> > doing so, Ubuntu Flatulent Badger isn't showing it in the big
> > "ifconfig" list, but is remembering the info when I "ifconfig
> > eth0:1"...)
>
> sorry, i phrased that badly. i realize that aliases are still
> possible but, as you note, they no longer show up in /proc/net/dev,
> and apparently haven't for a while. hence my suggestion of dead code
> that could be removed.
I confirmed they didn't in Red Hat 9 (my "how did an old 2.4 system do it"
test environment).
I also confirmed that busybox 1.1.2 (the snapshot I had lying around) lists
the aliases when you do "ifconfig" by itself to list all interfaces.
Still trying to confirm what -current does because lots of things keep
breaking. (taskset.c broke, fdisk.c broke, e2fsprogs _never_ worked...
Sigh.)
> rday
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