Re: Does IP aliasing work?
In <[🔎] w5n2ymxeul.fsf@vtcs-cvs.jhk.com>, jda@jhk.com (John D. Amidon) writes:
>
>My hardware is a Gateway 2000, 3c509 ethernet card, and Debian kernel is
>2.0.6 built to include `ip_aliasing'. I see `/proc/net/alias*' files so I
>take it the kernel was built correctly.
[...SNIP...]
>The NET-2-HOWTO makes it sound sooo easy as does the mini-howto at
>http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/IP-Alias.
>
>What are we doing wrong?
Just to follow up - we did get IP aliasing to work. It turned out we
did not have the kernel built correctly after all. I guess 'make menuconfig'
was just too easy for me!
I'm glad it works - it would have seemed silly to have to install two Ethernet
adapters, both connected to the same cable.
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