[CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

[umair shakil]

Dear Ray,

If you analyze, both the commands:

ifconfig is a way to configure your IP address as the name shows, it is
valid
/sbin/ip didnot see such situation ???? may in future.

Regards,

Umair Shakil
Askai Bank Limited
Pakistan

On 9/7/07, Ray Leventhal <centos at swhi.net> wrote:
>
> Karanbir Singh wrote:
> > Ray Leventhal wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I need to (quickly!grrr) update IP addresses for which a given machine
> >> will answer.
> >>
> >> I did this:
> >>
> >> /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 xx.xx.xx.10 netmask 255.255.255.0
> >
> > you might want to investigate /sbin/ip - its been around for a few
> > years now, no reason why people should not be using that these days :)
> >
> Thanks, I shall.  But as this is a production server, is there something
> that /sbin/ip will do for me that /sbin/ifconfig was unable to?
>
> ~R
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