[Gllug] Virtual IP addresses on a Linux box

Bruce Richardson brichardson at lineone.net
Mon Jul 9 14:03:51 UTC 2001


On 7/9/01, 12:40:55 PM, Dave Cridland <dave at cridland.net> wrote 
regarding Re: [Gllug] Virtual IP addresses on a Linux box:


> I've never noticed much of a performance degredation, and I've been
> doing virtual IP addresses by the /24 using the 'old' way (ifconfig
> eth0:something), rather than the new way (ip addr add ... dev eth0).

> If anything, I'd expect the new way to be faster, but that's simply a
> gut feeling.

Don't know about that but ip (as in /sbin/ip) is a lovely tool;)

-- 

Bruce




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