Multiple IP with one nic

[Trevor "TeC" Christian]

Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 22:25, Jonathan Carpenter wrote:
>  
>
>>I have several servers that are not doing to much and I need to
>>combine them in to one. Is there anyway that I can give one server
>>multiple IP's and hostnames? So the network will see this one server
>>as several?
>>    
>>
>
>You can add multiple IP's but for most purposes all you need
>is multiple names pointing to the one IP address.  You can
>do this with DNS aliases:
>othername  IN   CNAME   realname
>and you can add as many other names as you want.
>If you do add multiple IP's, be aware that the source address
>for outbound connections may change to one of the new ones
>so you may have to adjust firewall and access rules.
>
>  
>
Adding to the mention of firewall rules... iptables (when last checked), 
i believe does not recognize eth0:X as a device and as such rules 
related to said traffic still have to be applied based on the main 
interface.

Correct me if I'm wrong...


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