On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, William R. Ward wrote: > Perhaps there was some extra step that I had done under Red Hat to > make this syntax possible, but I can't remember what it is. Whatever > it is, it should work the same no matter which Linux distribution I > use, shouldn't it? Debian's default kernel does not have IP aliasing compiled in, you should recompile your kernel. [A good idea on any linux system!] Jason