second IP address

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 23.06.2004 schrieb Nina Pham um 1:34:

> I need to create a vpn server on my FC2 system server. I want to have a 
> second IP address dedicated for the vpn server. How do I make the system 
> to recognize both ip addresses(its own , and vpn server) at the same time?

Create an aliased ethernet device by i.e. copying
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0 and edit that ifcfg-eth0:0
file. Change the device name entry and the IP setting. Finally restart
the network and voila the additional IP is up.

Alexander


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