Plumb equivalent on Red Hat 9?

[Chris Purcell]

>> I'd like to assign a static secondary address to the NIC card.  I'm
>> not running X server and have used netconfig but it's been unreliable,
>> i.e. cloned interface was not coming up on reboot.
>>
>> So what's the best way to assign (remotely, through SSH using Putty)
>> second IP address to an RH9 box?
>
>
> Edit the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 file.  To make the
> changes happen immediately, either restart the network service ("service
> network restart"), or run "ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.1 netmask
> 255.255.255.0".


Sorry, I misread your post.  Make that the ifcfg-eth0:0 file and run
"ifconfig eth0:0..." instead.

Chris