On 9:04am, Mohan Sundaram wrote: > I'd like to know use cases where one needs an address without the > secondary prefix on the device.
Redundancy. Bcoz I learned this only when I was playing with VRRP. > Seems to me that ifconfig does not show this address as it does not > have a label. Not sure though. This addresses are very similar to alias and ifconfig will show this IP addresses once a label added to it. # ip address add dev eth0 192.168.10.1/24 broadcast + label eth0:one Bye :) -- Bharathi S _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
