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net: update documentation ip aliases

This documentation is old.  Add a short note to describe why aliases
are no long necessary, and remove the old contact/edit info.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Stephen Hemminger 16 years ago
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Documentation/networking/alias.txt

@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
 IP-Aliasing:
 IP-Aliasing:
 ============
 ============
 
 
-IP-aliases are additional IP-addresses/masks hooked up to a base 
-interface by adding a colon and a string when running ifconfig. 
-This string is usually numeric, but this is not a must.
-
-IP-Aliases are avail if CONFIG_INET (`standard' IPv4 networking) 
-is configured in the kernel.
+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.
 
 
 o Alias creation.
 o Alias creation.
   Alias creation is done by 'magic' interface naming: eg. to create a
   Alias creation is done by 'magic' interface naming: eg. to create a
@@ -38,16 +38,3 @@ o Relationship with main device
 
 
   If the base device is shut down the added aliases will be deleted 
   If the base device is shut down the added aliases will be deleted 
   too.
   too.
-
-
-Contact
--------
-Please finger or e-mail me:
-   Juan Jose Ciarlante <jjciarla@raiz.uncu.edu.ar>
-
-Updated by Erik Schoenfelder <schoenfr@gaertner.DE>
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