Assigning a virtual ip address to PCMCIA ethernet card

["Tan, Stephen" <Tans@soe.sega.co.uk>]

Hi all - I am having problems trying to assign a virtual ip to my pcmcia
ethernet card.

The card already has an ip address set. An ifconfig shows that all is fine:


florence:/etc/network# ifconfig 
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:DA:EA:05:60  
          inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xx  Bcast:xxx.xxx.xxx.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:48304 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2622 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          Interrupt:5 Base address:0x300 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
          RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 

Trying to assign a virtual ip results in this:

florence:/etc/network# ifconfig eth0:0  192.168.253.200 netmask
255.255.255.0 up
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device


Any ideas anyone?

Thanks in advance

Stan


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