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Re: Multiple IPaddr. on 1-interface (IP aliases?)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike McCabe)
Wed Mar 20 07:01:21 1996

Date: 	Wed, 20 Mar 1996 06:52:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Mike McCabe <mccabe@nscgld.com>
Reply-To: Mike McCabe <mccabe@nscgld.com>
To: "Arthur S. Petrossian" <arthur@sci.am>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960320093810.11724A-100000@pnas.sci.am>

> 
> Hello friends!
> 
> Can anyone at last help me to find out how to configure more that one
> IP adrresses on the same interface (e.g. eth0)?
> I heard that:
> 1.Dummy interface could be used or
> 2.IP aliases...

The best way is to use IP Aliasing.  You can find information about it
in a newer kernel source tree in...

/usr/src/linux/Documentation/Networking/alias.txt

Hope this helps.

Mike

> 
> But please tell me WHERE to read about configuring either of them?
> Which one is better?
> Now I now that this is possible, but I wonder HOW could I do that?
> 
> 
>  Looking forward to hear from you
> 
>  Regards, 
>  Artie
> 
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