On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> wrote: > On Nov 2, 2015, at 2:40 PM, Mike - st257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > It doesn’t look like ‘ip link’ has the syntax to remove an alias, but it > can be done via sysfs: > ;-) Nice. [Forest for the trees!] I didn't think of sysfs because I was fixated on the ip link utility. Thanks Jonathan! > > # ip link show dev lo > 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode > DEFAULT group default > link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 > # ip link set dev lo alias loopback > # ip link show dev lo > 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode > DEFAULT group default > link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 > alias loopback > # echo > /sys/class/net/lo/ifalias > # ip link show dev lo > 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode > DEFAULT group default > link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 > > It also can be set there too: > > # echo hicentos > /sys/class/net/lo/ifalias > # ip link show dev lo > 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode > DEFAULT group default > link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 > alias hicentos > > -- > Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //