Net::Interface or IO::Interface and aliases

pierreact has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi everyone :)

My question is quite simple, after reading about Net::Interface and IO::Interface, I still don't see nothing about aliases.

In unix, if I type something like ifconfig rl0 inet 172.16.1.1/30 alias, I'll get an alias on the interface.

Now, I seen nothing to list this IP in the doc...

Anyone please ?

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Re: Net::Interface or IO::Interface and aliases by shmem (Chancellor) on Nov 18, 2006 at 15:02 UTC
Your observation is accurate. Doing a `grep -rl alias .` in the respective package directory shows Makefile (compiler flags) and an object file for each package (s_aliases from `struct servent` in `/usr/include/netdb.h`) on my linux box. Seems like alias handling is missing. You could contact the authors (preferably with an appropriate patch .-) --shmem _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo. G°\ / /\_¯/(q / ---------------------------- \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."· ");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Net::Interface or IO::Interface and aliases by pierreact (Initiate) on Nov 18, 2006 at 20:41 UTC
Well, this is one of my first programs in perl... I don't think I have the level to patch a CPAN module. Hope someone finds this interresting, for now, I'll simply pipe ifconfig :) Thank you.	[reply]