Sorry my typo, it is ifcfg-eth0:0. all I did was make an exact copy of the
eth0 one, change the DEVICE and IP and saved it away. I thought thats all
that was needed, but on re-boot I do a ifconfig -a but it does not show up,
my regular eth0 is fine....
-----Original Message-----
From: Sue Bauer-Lee [mailto:">sblee@tazmania.org]
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 11:57 AM
To: ">Malcolm.Silberman@BassHotels.com
Subject: Re: [ale] IP Aliasing on 6.1
Unless it's a typo in your original post, how about ifcfg-eth0:0?
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 09:38:47AM -0500, ">Malcolm.Silberman@BassHotels.com
wrote:
> yes I did, has any one got this working as I propose below? I am probably
> doing something stupid!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephan Uphoff [mailto:">ups@tree.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 10:29 PM
> To: ">Malcolm.Silberman@BassHotels.com
> Cc: ">maltzen@mm.com; ">ale@ale.org; ">ups@tree.com
> Subject: Re: [ale] IP Aliasing on 6.1
>
>
>
> Did you change the line "DEVICE=eth0" to "DEVICE=eth0:0" after
> copying the file ?
>
>
> > 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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