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Hello List, After demystifying the cause for my /sbin/ifup-local not being executed by network scripts for an Ethernet interface (don't let NetworkManager control it or ifup-local won't be executed)... ... I have a question with hopefully a simple answer: I placed an alias/description on my interface during testing and now I want to remove it. But when I try to remove it, I'm either

...brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 alias loopback # echo > /sys/class/net/lo/ifalias # ip link show dev lo 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 It also can be set there too: # echo hicentos > /sys/class/net/lo/ifalias # ip link show dev lo 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 alias hicentos -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>