@bakunin Hello!
Yeah I was trying to walk Phat down the proper way as I looked at his other posts and (nothing against him at at all) he's a little green behind the ears.
So to set/remove alias the clean way I recommend:
smitty tcpip --> Further configuration -->Network interface -->Network interface selection -->Configure alias
Once done, I do recommend checking...
Ok, WOW that is a mess.
Someone at one point in time felt it was needed to give two Physical adapters, two VIO adapters, and then somewhere they built a failover/link aggeration adapter with what I...