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On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 09:20:17AM +0100, Francois JEANMOUGIN wrote:
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lvs-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lvs-users-
> >
> > FYI:
> > The concept of "virtual interfaces" a la eth0:# died long ago. Nowadays
> > it's
> > simply IP addresses which are either primary or secondary, and either with
> > scope
> > host, local or forgot_the_others ;).
>
> I really LOVE such messages. People telling that iproute is THE
> new network management tool... Ho yeah. So, now, I have
> iproute-2.2.4 installed on this f... RedHat ES 2.1. No man page.
> When I do a ifconfig eth1 down, ifconfig show it down, but
> everything is up. I try hard to find in /usr/share/doc a link,
> or a text description on how you can perform simple tasks with
> /sbin/ip, but there is nothing, nor a simple man page.
>
> Is there a way to make this lovelly product mature or will it
> stay a geek game ?
There is a man page for the tool. I am not sure why it isn't installed
on your distribution, nor why the other documentation isn't present.
This might help your cause http://annys.eines.info/cgi-bin/man/man2html?ip+8
And of course, as always with open source/free software the best
thing to do when things aren't up to scratch is to contribute.
--
Horms
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