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net: update documentation ip aliases

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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: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Stephen Hemminger 2009-01-29 16:16:31 -08:00 committed by David S. Miller
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IP-Aliasing:
============
IP-aliases are additional IP-addresses/masks hooked up to a base
interface by adding a colon and a string when running ifconfig.
IP-aliases are an obsolete way to manage multiple IP-addresses/masks
per interface. Newer tools such as iproute2 support multiple
address/prefixes per interface, but aliases are still supported
for backwards compatibility.
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.
IP-Aliases are avail if CONFIG_INET (`standard' IPv4 networking)
is configured in the kernel.
o Alias creation.
Alias creation is done by 'magic' interface naming: eg. to create a
200.1.1.1 alias for eth0 ...
@ -38,16 +38,3 @@ o Relationship with main device
If the base device is shut down the added aliases will be deleted
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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