If you use control-panel to create an alias with their GUI tool, you
should get a pretty good example...
-Eric.
">Malcolm.Silberman@BassHotels.com writes:
> I did that and it works, but I want to do it automatically from start up, I
> remember in the old days you put it in a script in rc.local. However I
> thought that in the new 6.1 stuff you make a copy of ifcfg-eth0 change the
> ip address (and name the file ipcfg-eth0:0)and that it should be brought up
> by the scripts in network-scripts. This is all in
> /etc/sysconfig/netwrok-scripts/. Any ideas on this? I saw this documented
> somewhere but for the life of me can't get it to work.
>
> thanks
> ms
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Maltzen [mailto:">maltzen@mm.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 6:59 PM
> To: ">Malcolm.Silberman@BassHotels.com
> Cc: ">ale@ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] IP Aliasing on Mandrake 6.1
>
>
> DUH! Ignore my previous ERRONEOUS response.
>
> I get the same error as you if I try to assign the same IP address to eth0:0
> as I did to eth0
>
> Assuming eth0 is 192.168.100.10, the following should work...
>
> ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.100.9 netmask 255.255.255.0
> ifconfig eth0:0 up
>
> -----Original Message-----
> I am trying to get this working. I get an error message 'cannot assign
> requested adress'. I made a copy of ifcfg-eth0 to ifcfg-eth0:0, and then try
> start it with ifconfig eth0:0 up and get that error. I think that Mandrake
> compiles IP aliasing support into the kernel, but am not sure (how would you
> find out?). Does anyone have any suggestions for doing IP aliasing on
> Mandrake 6.1?
>
> By the way my two IP addresses are 198.168.100.10 for eth0 and 198.168.100.9
> for eth0:0
>
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