Re: IP aliasing

[Jason Costomiris <jcostom@sjis.com>]

On Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 03:30:18PM +1000, Terry Dawson wrote:
: 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...

I propose this get included in a subsequent Debian release...  I run this
as /etc/init.d/virtualhosts.  I wrote it, you can have it...

----cut here-----
#!/bin/bash

# Copyleft Jason Costomiris <jcostom@sjis.com>
# Reserved rights?  Nah, just leave these comment lines.
# Stick your IPs or hostnames in the names line, put a space between them.

names=""

count=0

if [ "$1" = "stop" ]; then
  for addr in $names
  do
	/sbin/route del $addr
	/sbin/ifconfig eth0:$count- $addr
	let count=$count+1
  done
elif [ "$1" = "start" -o "$1" = "" ]; then
  for addr in $names
  do
	/sbin/ifconfig eth0:$count $addr
	/sbin/route add -host $addr dev eth0:$count
	let count=$count+1
  done
else
  echo 'Usage: '$0' [start|stop]'
fi
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