Re: 2 IP addresses for one network card

From: Chuck Forsberg (caf_at_localhost.localdomain)
Date: 10/22/04 

Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:33:57 -0700

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 02:09:08 +0200, Jan Gosch wrote:
> You have to ceate an alias for the NIC. You can assign as many
> ip-addresses to a NIC as you like.
> create a file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts named ifcfg-eth0:0 with an
> ipaddress and netmask.
> For other ip's ifcfg-eth0:1 and so on. Thats it.
>
Thanks for the tip. The ifconfig man page makes no mention of this! 

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