assigning multiple ip addresses to NIC on bootupm, how?

[mnisay]

how about creating the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0
booting the box or restarting the network service will make it always 
available


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Lowth" <chris at lowth.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: assigning multiple ip addresses to NIC on bootupm, how?


> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>
>>>Or simply add the commands to /etc/rc.local
>>>
>>
>>Possible, but a really bad style / practice. One should always use the
>>configuration paths the system offers. I.e. /etc/rc.local does not count
>>whether the network service is started or not, it always proceeds as
>>last instance during the bootup.
>>
>>Alexander
>>
>
> Not sure about the "should always use .." - there's always an "it 
> depends". Sometimes (though possibly not in this case) the system provided 
> paths just dont offer the features a user needs/wants or do so in a 
> overly-complex manner.
>
> Since the OP mentioned setting static addresses on the sub interfaces it 
> is likely that the main interf is also statically set, which in turn means 
> that the interface is more than likely to be brought up during the boot 
> process and would certainly be "up" by the time rc.local is executed. 
> Given that rc.local is always that last step in the boot process it does 
> (in his specific case) give a useful option.
>
> Chris
>
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