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What does one have to do to add a sub interface? This is a freshly
installed and updated Woody system. This was the first settign I tried
to
change. PITB.
Thanks very much for the time to help,
Things are definatly different in many places. I hope getting the hang
of the Debian way doesn't prove to be too stressful.
I just added the eth0:0 entry to /etc/network/interfaces:
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You got that right. I never imagined all the little nuances I forgot I
knew (and now don't know any more). I'm muddling through it. The whole
point being to get something more stable than a once a year complete OS
rebuild/swap for RHx.
I got it (eth0:0) to work but had to build a new kernel to do it. That
took some
doing as well, but I believe I finally got all the piece parts together
(for the kernel) and got it going. It seems somehow on install I got some
sort of mini-kernel. Probably something I did. Installing the precompiled
kernel didn't work because my NIC wouldn't come up.