[K12OSN] eth alias help

[Steve Wright]

On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 09:37, Caleb Wagnon wrote:
> Steve Wright said:
> 
> > off the top of my head ;
> >
> > You will need an additional startup script.  iproute2 is not implemented
> > well in userspace just yet - the tools are there, but not the supporting
> > scripting.  Add a script in /etc/init.d and ln -s to it from somewhere
> > as early as possible, but after your main networking has started.
> >
> > Take care that swapping runlevels back and forth will not load and
> > re-load this script repeatedly, or bad things will happen.. baaad
> > things, man.
> >
> > /etc/init.d/iproute2
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> > # chkconfig:
> > # description: load our iproute2 stuff
> >
> > ip address add 192.168.n.254/24 dev eth0
> >
> > # done
> >
> >
> > I expect at this point you may simply hand-run /etc/init.d/iproute2
> > and restart your services and you should on-the-air!  ;-)
> 
> Ok. So if this doesn't work can I get my money back? =)

ahhh, we can do a deal, yes.  ;;-)

just test it - do the `ip address add ...` command..  results in 10
seconds..  if happy - script it..  see.. easy.  8-)


/steve