Plumb equivalent on Red Hat 9?

[Mike Burger]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Chris Purcell wrote:

> > 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".

That's fine if he wants to change the primary IP address...he specifically 
wants to set a secondary address, though.
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