multiple ip's?

[Jeff Vian]

Bill Schoolcraft wrote:

>At Tue, 18 May 2004 it looks like rolf-list at triculture.com composed:
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>>Michael -
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>>the best way to do it is as follows
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>>cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
>>#change to the directory where the ifconfig scripts are held
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>>cp ifcfg-eth0 ifcfg-eth0:1
>>#copy ifcfg-eth0(configuration file for eth0) to ifcfg-eth0:1(first alias)
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>Hmm, I know on Solaris the first alias starts at :1 but I recall doing my first
>alias for Linux on eth0:0, is that still the case currently?
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AFAIK yes, you can use up to 256 aliases (or eth0:0 to eth0:255) on each 
physical interface.

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