[ale] virtual interfaces

[newcombe at aa.csc.peachnet.edu (Dan Newcombe)]

> Does any know how to setup virtual IP interfaces on an ethernet
> adapter?  By virtual, I mean I want one NIC to respond to two
> different IP addresses.  I read somewhere that it could be done
> under Linux, but have not been able to lay my hands on that
> material again.

Make sure that you have IP_ALIAS turned on when you compile.  The docs 
are in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/alias.txt

Basically, if you have aliasing turned on, you just do
	ifconfig eth0:1 ipnumber 
and so on.  eth0:1 is the new interface, or eth0:2, etc...

	-Dan

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