Mark A. Olbert wrote: > I need to configure my LFS box to multihome the external Ethernet connection > (which is eth1 on my machine). I can do this manually by issuing: > > ifconfig eth1:1 <second ip address> > > But I'd appreciate some advice/suggestions on how to do this via the boot > scripts. The obvious thing I tried -- creating a directory called > /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifconfig.eth1:1 and populating an ipv4 file in > it appropriately -- didn't work. Or rather, it added the second IP address to > the eth1 interface, but it didn't show up in the ifconfig report and weird > things started happening to my LAN connectivity. > > - Mark > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature > database 3416 (20080904) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > IIRC, the version of ifconfig installed by default isn't the full monty, have a look for it in blfs and install that one, then see if ifconfig picks up your virtual adapter.
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