Re: ifconfig

[Louis Larry <louis@webindonesia.com>]

On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:

> > Can someone tell me how to setup a machine with one network
> > interface card(eth0) to respond to more than one IP address?
> > FreeBSD seems to be able to do something as follows:
> >         ifconfig ep0 192.168.123.2
> >         ifconfig ep0 192.168.123.3 alias netmask 0xFFFFFFFF
> > I checked man page of ifconfig but I still don't know how
> > to do it in under Debian.  Please kindly let me know.
> 
> I believe the syntax is:
> 
>    ifconfig eth0 192.168.123.2
>    ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.123.3

You also need to add it to the routing table.
	route add -host 192.168.123.3 dev eth0:1

Read IP-Aliasing mini howto.

Louis.


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