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| author | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2026-09-26 07:57:59 +1000 |
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| committer | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2026-09-26 07:58:24 +1000 |
| commit | a9ed3aa9b87ee41e8ab3ff471b1331c154767e45 (patch) | |
| tree | cc62d74e0eb4905246978674461e78e2f9df2afd /Documentation/networking/alias.rst | |
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Merge tag 'drm-misc-fixes-2026-09-24' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/misc/kernel into drm-fixesgrafted
A number of fixes:
- bridge:
- samsung-dsim: fix GPIO lifetime
- client: Null pointer dereference fix
- imagination: error handling fix, page handling fix
- nouveau: fix reference leaks, double-frees, out-of-bounds accesses,
use-after-frees, don't reject config without SCDC, a number of
workarounds
- virtio: fix memory leak, reference leaks, null pointer dereference,
add pixel blend mode, cache coherency fix
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
From: Maxime Ripard <self@mripard.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/arU22zzqUGDEco1y@houat
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/alias.rst b/Documentation/networking/alias.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..af7c5ee92 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/alias.rst @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=========== +IP-Aliasing +=========== + +IP-aliases are an obsolete way to manage multiple IP-addresses/masks +per interface. Newer tools such as iproute2 support multiple +address/prefixes per interface, but aliases are still supported +for backwards compatibility. + +An alias is formed by adding a colon and a string when running ifconfig. +This string is usually numeric, but this is not a must. + + +Alias creation +============== + +Alias creation is done by 'magic' interface naming: eg. to create a +200.1.1.1 alias for eth0 ... +:: + + # ifconfig eth0:0 200.1.1.1 etc,etc.... + ~~ -> request alias #0 creation (if not yet exists) for eth0 + +The corresponding route is also set up by this command. Please note: +The route always points to the base interface. + + +Alias deletion +============== + +The alias is removed by shutting the alias down:: + + # ifconfig eth0:0 down + ~~~~~~~~~~ -> will delete alias + + +Alias (re-)configuring +====================== + +Aliases are not real devices, but programs should be able to configure +and refer to them as usual (ifconfig, route, etc). + + +Relationship with main device +============================= + +If the base device is shut down the added aliases will be deleted too. |
