Plumb equivalent on Red Hat 9?

Chris Purcell redhat at cjp.us
Wed Apr 28 15:24:09 UTC 2004


> 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".

Chris






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