RE: Aliasing a NIC
Thanks!
I hadn't seen that HOWTO before. Lots of good stuff on aliasing and
routing.
John Purser
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Carroll [mailto:mark@chaos.x-philes.com]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 12:14
To: Debian-User (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Aliasing a NIC
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, John Purser wrote:
> Once upon a time I knew how to make linux use multiple IP addresses for
one
> ethernet NIC card. I believe the format looked like "eth0:0" but I can't
> remember the rest of it. Can someone point me to a HOW-TO or man
reference?
> I did it before on a Red Hat box using linuxconfig but now I'm trying to
do
> it on a Debian woody box running a 2.4.10 kernel. I need to know what
files
> to edit and what the format of the configuration.
You probably need IP aliasing support in your kernel, and ifconfig should
do the rest, probably via /etc/network/interfaces or something.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/IP-Alias/ may yield some helpful clues.
-- Mark
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