Re: Multiple static ips and dhcp mixed

[Armin Häberling <haeberling@privasphere.com>]

Alex Samad wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:48:10AM +0200, Armin Häberling wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm currently setting up a development machine of ours. For testing our  
> > application it need two static ips. it does not need to be accessible  
> > under these ips from outside.
> > Another interface should be configured via dhcp. I would use a static  
> > ip, but it's a laptop that may be used in a lots of different networks.
> >
> > My /etc/network/interfaces looks like this
> >
> > auto lo
> > iface lo inet loopback
> >
> > auto eth1
> > iface eth1 inet dhcp
> >
> > auto eth1:0
> > iface eth1:0 inet static
> >         address 172.16.2.201
> >         netmask 255.255.255.0
> >         broadcast 172.16.2.255
> >
> > auto eth1:1
> > iface eth1:1 inet static
> >         address 172.16.2.201
> >         netmask 255.255.255.0
> >         broadcast 172.16.2.255
>
> they are the same address ?

Thats a typo, thanks

> > I set up the static ips in a private subnet.
> >
> > The problems with this solution is that eth1:0 and eth1:0 are not set up  
> > at boot time. They are only set up if I do a /etc/init.d/networking  
> > restart. The second is that if I unplug the network eth1:0 and eth1:1  
> > also go down. I would really like them to be up all the time (remeber  
> > that I don't care if they are not accessible from another machine).
>
> why not add the addresses to lo then

how can I do that?