[ale] OT: rant

[James Sumners]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Lightner, Jeffrey <JLightner at dsservices.com
> wrote:

> Another thing that bit me early on when I tried to use it was that it
> stores aliases such as eth1:1 in the main ifcfg-eth1 rather than in
> separate ifcfg-eth1:1 as the older network tool did.   When you’d start
> networking it would find your ifcfg-eth1:1 but assume you meant that to be
> eth2.   D’oh!


That confounded me as well. To be fair, though, RHEL6 supports the `ip2`,
`gateway2`, etc. configuration in `/ifcfg-ethX` config. You have to really
dig to find the documentation, but it's out there.


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