On 07/28/2014 01:49 PM, Andrew Z wrote:
> I havent figured out how to manage those files..
> The original script creates dozens of aliases - one per destination, by
> replacing first Xxx with 127. This makes it intuitive where alias "points" to.
> Now with each file having the same name (lo:<port>) imnot sure how to manage
> these aliases.
>
> I want to add, that I suspect that im missing something obvious and/or just
> dont understand how network stack works now.
> Any help is very much appreciated, since all my information is from rhel one
> page guide , some blog and just trying to get aliases to work.
>

Manually you could do:

ip addr add 127.112.113.xxx dev lo


> On Jul 28, 2014 10:40 AM, "Orion Poplawski" <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
>     On 07/28/2014 08:08 AM, Andrew Z wrote:
>
>         I have an apple os script, that creates an lo alias ( for example
>         127.112.113)
>         and then ssh -p xxxx 127.112.113 <rest of the command>
>
>         To begin with ifconfig doesn't work on creating aliases and according
>         to rhel
>         docs I need to copy ethXxx files if I want to create these aliases.
>         Is there a better way,  than to copy files, to achieve the same?
>
>
>     What's the concern with making a new ifcfg-* file to create the alias?
>
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