[CentOS] CentOS7 and "ip link alias"

Wed Nov 4 13:16:28 UTC 2015
Mike - st257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com>

Thoughts please?

Thanks,
- Mike

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Mike - st257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello List,
>
> After demystifying the cause for my /sbin/ifup-local not being executed by
> network scripts for an Ethernet interface (don't let NetworkManager control
> it or ifup-local won't be executed)...
>
> ... I have a question with hopefully a simple answer:
> I placed an alias/description on my interface during testing and now I
> want to remove it.
> But when I try to remove it, I'm either trying to do something _actually_
> not supported or I don't have the proper syntax to accomplish what I want.
>
>
> ~]# ip link set dev eno1 alias "hit"
>
> ~]# ip link show eno1
> 2: eno1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode
> DEFAULT qlen 1000
>     link/ether 00:22:19:1e:a2:5b brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>     alias hit
>
> ~]# ip link delete dev eno1 alias "hit"
> RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported
>
>
> Thoughts?
> It's mildly annoying at most.
>
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