Re: ifconfig alias option

[sailer@sun10.sep.bnl.gov (Tim Sailer)]

Markus Diesmann wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> floowing O'Reilly's Apache book I treid to set up second IP adress for a 
> debian linux system.
> It seems that debian's implementation of ifconfig does not support the
> alias option.
> Is this true?
> Does anybody know how I can make system with one ethernet board listen
> to
> two IP addresses in the same domain?

First, you have to compile your kernel with ip aliasing in it. Reboot
with your shiny new kernel.

Then run something like this:

/sbin/ifconfig eth0:1 yourdomain.com
/sbin/route add -host yourdomain.com dev eth0:1

Tim

PS: I'll be adding this to my ISP page, along with ip_accounting for
the virtual interfaces.

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