(Background: I needed a method to add an aliased IP address to an existing interface. No set out method is currently available in LFS to achieve this)
> > I think this would be a worthwhile inclusion to LFS. Have you emailed > > lfs-dev or would you like me to? > > The right way to do this is to add a new service in > /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/services. You could call it ipv4-alias > or something. Copy ipv4-static for a template. It would be really > simple since it's just one call to ip. Then you'd enable that service > in /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifconfig.eth0 just like you do with > dhcp or any other service. I've created an ipv4-alias script, please see attached. However, it is almost exactly the same as the ipv4-static script (it still needs all the same parameters as a normal static address), which makes me think that the ipv4-static script should just be updated so that it can deal with an ALIAS variable (similar to the script Rabenkind did). > As for getting it in LFS, I would be find adding it to the contrib > directory in lfs-bootscripts. Great. If you do want to keep it as a separate script, can I suggest a mention of it in the network script page of LFS (ch 7.13)? This is the first place I think most people would go to look for this sort of information. Andy Beverley
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