Hi guys, It was recently brought to my attention (see below) that we still ship net-tools in Arch. Should we perhaps start working on dropping that? I regularly run into users who use it without knowing that it is dead and broken. Moving it to the AUR would hopefully send the right message... I know that this will probably upset people's muscle-memory as most people probably have been using these tools for decades. I guess that's not an insurmountable problem for us though? Cheers, Tom ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tom Gundersen Date: Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:22 PM Subject: Re: [systemd-devel] Assigning a second ip-address on interface (i.e. eth0 and eth0:1) To: Mantas Mikulėnas Cc: Oliver , "systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote:

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog wrote:

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Hi Oliver,

You can specify Address= more than once as it is explained in http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.network.html (Address=).

And just for the record, use `ip addr` to make sure it works, because chances are that `ifconfig` won't show it.

Since kernel 2.2, there can be several IP addresses on the same eth0 interface without having to use 'aliases', using `ip addr add` for example. networkd uses the new method as well. Unfortunately, `ifconfig` – even the last version that Arch has – only shows the first address to this day.

PSA: never, ever, use ifconfig or friends. It has been dead upstream since sometime in the last millenium and is known to give you misleading or just wrong information. I thought we had dropped it from Arch to be honest... Maybe time to look at that... Cheers, Tom