[Ilugc] configure the virtual IP

[Bharathi Subramanian]

> On 01/12/2010 02:49 PM, Saravanan S wrote:
>> Since everything in Linux is a file, you can create a virtual NIC
>> by duplicating the eth0 device file.

How!? Bcoz network interface is not connected to any device file.

> AFAICT[1], RTNETLINK is refers to the netfilter API to manipulate
> the kernel routing tables not any user space tool to assign IP
> addresses to NICs

It is not like direct assignment of IP. Some other trick and is
related to multicast. Let me try to recollect that.

Bye :)
-- 
Bharathi S