On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Maarten Boekhold wrote: : Hi, : : I tried to steup an IP alias on a machine here. According to the : Virtual-Web mini-HOWTO, I can do: : : ifconfig eth0 alias new-address : : However, ifconfig says 'alias' is not a hostname. 'man ifconfig' doesn't : say anything about aliasing. This is with netbase 2.13-1.
Use 'ifconfig eth0:1 new-address' Remco -- // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://oloon.student.utwente.nl // " Never make any mistaeks. " -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .