On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Nate Carlson wrote: > You can create aliases doing 'ifconfig ethx:y', where x is the main > interface number, and y starts at zero and increments for each interface. > > With Advanced Routing in your kernel, you can assign an entire subnet to > your interface with: > > ip addr add n.n.n.n/yy brd + dev eth0 label eth0:Aliases > > ..which takes all of the IP's in n.n.n.n/yy, assigns them to your > interface with the standard broadcast address, and calls the alias > 'eth0:Aliases'. whoops! that's wrong. hehe that adds n.n.n.n as an alias, not the whole subnet. :) I know you can do it with adv routing somehow, but I don't remember how right now. Ugh. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org