Re: IP aliasing

[Terry Dawson <terry@perf.no.itg.telstra.com.au>]

Maarten Boekhold wrote:

> I tried to steup an IP alias on a machine here. According to the
> Virtual-Web mini-HOWTO, I can do:
> 
> ifconfig eth0 alias new-address
> 
> However, ifconfig says 'alias' is not a hostname. 'man ifconfig' doesn't
> say anything about aliasing. This is with netbase 2.13-1.
> 
> Anybody who can get me goin' on this?

NET-3-HOWTO, but more specifically:

ifconfig eth0 myrealaddr options....
ifconfig eth0:1 myfirstipalias options...
ifconfig eth0:2 mysecondipalias options...

regards
Terry


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