Re: Interface Aliases...

[Gary <gary-list-silug@mygirlfriday.info>]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 02:59:53PM -0600 or thereabouts, KoReE wrote:
> Okay, so I used to be able to do aliased Ethernet interfaces.  But, it
> appears I'm not able to do so now.  Here's sample output:
> 
> ether:~ # ifconfig eth0:1 up
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device
> ether:~ # ifconfig eth0:1
> eth0:1    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:20:18:2C:F6:24
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           Interrupt:12 Base address:0x6800
> 
> ether:~ # ifconfig eth0:1 up
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device

I just ran into this.  I had to go into RH's control panel/network config
and under ethernet device, edit, hardware device, and check to enable
Alias Device support.  Then it worked. 
 
-- 
Best regards,
Gary


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