Re: [offlist] Re: Defining Virtual Ethernet Interfaces

[Butch Kemper <kemper@tstar.net>]

At 06:15 PM 7/30/99 , you wrote:
> > I have a problem with adding a virtual interface to the ethernet card.
> >
> > I have put an IFCONFIG command in /etc/init.d/network for the virtual
> > interface:
> >
> >               ifconfig eth0:1 inet 208.21.250.3 netmask 255.255.255.0
> >               broadcast 208.21.250.255
> >
> > These are the messages that are logged during startup:
> >
> >               Jul 18 21:53:45 dns2 kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at
> >               0xf600, IRQ 11, 00:00:b4:bd:cd:5c.
> >               Jul 18 21:53:45 dns2 kernel: net_alias_dev_create(eth0:1):
> >               unregistered family==2
> >
> > The virtual interface does not until I manually execute 
> /etc/init.d/network
> > when the interface is added.
> >
> > I either have the virtual specifications in the wrong place or there is a
> > timing problem.
> >
>
> Hey --
>
> Did you ever get any replies to this?  Was it a kernel compilation problem?
>
> (This is an area of interest of mine, but I have no experience.)
>
> If you got no replies, I'd say repost it.  Often if no one replies right
> away and starts a thread, on that list things seem to just get buried by
> others.

The problem waiting until after "kerneld" was loaded.  So, I created a new 
script /etc/init.d/network2 containing the required "ifconfig" command and 
then created symlinks in the rc?.d directories:

        ln -s ../init.d/network2  rc2.d/S14network2
        ln -s ../init.d/network2  rc3.d/S14network2
        ln -s ../init.d/network2  rc4.d/S14network2
        ln -s ../init.d/network2  rc5.d/S14network2

Works great now.

Butch

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