ip alias after reboot

[marvin]

Mike Burger writes:

> On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, marvin wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hello.
> > 
> > RedHat 3.0AS
> > 
> > I have added an alias to lo :-
> > 
> > ifconfig lo:0 127.53.01 netmask 255.255.255.0
> > 
> > It works fine, but how do I make sure it is still there and 'up' after a
> > reboot ?
> 
> You have a couple of options.
> 
> The easiest, actually, so that you don't have to set subinterfaces, is to 
> use the ip addr command:
> 
> ip addr add 172.53.0.1 dev eth0
> 
> Just put it into your /etc/rc.local file.


dev eth0 ???