[ILUG] Real vs. aliased interfaces

[Paul J Collins]

>>>>> "JR" == James Raftery <james-ilug at now.ie> writes:

    JR> The problem is that the machine is live now and I don't want
    JR> to reboot it. If I 'ifconfig eth0 down' to shutdown the
    JR> 212.147.130.150 interface will eth0:0 remain useable?

If you do it fast enough, you can down everything and bring em back up
without affecting established connections.

I've done things like ifconfig hme0 down ; foo bar ; ifconfig hme0 up
over telnet and not lost the connection.

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