How do I assign multiple IPs from different subnets to the same NIC?

[Malcolm Ferguson]

I have NT4 machine which I'm trying to replace with a Debian box.  It 
currently has a secondary IP in a completely different subnet assigned 
to its public NIC.  I'm trying to figure out how to do this in Debian - 
I think I need to modify /etc/network/interfaces, but I'm not sure how.

For example, the NIC is configured to 192.168.0.2 with netmask 
255.255.255.0 and default gateway set to 192.168.0.1.  I also need to 
assign 172.16.0.2/32 to it.  I've seen one technique that adds an entry 
for eth0:0, but I have seen comments elsewhere that indicates that this 
(aliasing?) is now deprecated.  The other instructions for adding a 
second IP put a line along the lines of "up ip addr add dev $IFACE 
172.16.1.106" in to the interfaces file.  I haven't been able to get 
that to work.

I'm running Woody (stable) with a 2.4 kernel.  Do I need to install the 
iproute package (I already).  Is there any documentation that you can 
point me to?  My /etc/network/interfaces file looks like the following - 
what do I need to do it?

# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)

# The loopback interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian 
installation

# (network, broadcast and gateway are optional)
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
       address 192.168.0.200
       netmask 255.255.255.0
       network 192.168.0.0
       broadcast 192.168.0.255
       gateway 192.168.0.1
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
       address 10.0.0.200
       netmask 255.255.255.0
       network 10.0.0.0
       broadcast 10.0.0.255
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