On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, George wrote: >Hi does anyone know how I can using ip aliasing with the >/etc/network/interfaces (debian method). I could easily add another startup >script with ifconfigs and routes, but that would be messy and uncalled for >and I'm sure someone must have done it before and got it right. Nomatter >what I've tried neither my pcmcia eth0 device is configured, (although the
/etc/network/interfaces gets processed before /etc/init.d/pcmcia. Basically, your aliases never get configured because eth0 is not recognized until after the configuration script is done. Welcome to the upside-down world of pcmcia and linux! I can't be of much help, as I've never used PCMCIA myself, only helped friends and found out the ugly truth. Perhaps debian-laptop may have some better help WRT PCMCIA. >module for it loads fine) nor are any of the aliases configured. I've tried >the following lines : > >auto lo eth0 eth0:1 eth0:2 // Didn't work >auto lo eth0 // Didn't work > >Also I tried changing the order of execution for the networking script, but >to no avail : i.e. # mv /etc/rc2.d/S40networking /etc/rc2.d/S99networking >and # mv /etc/rc2.d/S40networking /etc/rc2.d/S04networking > > >I've attached my /etc/network/interfaces if anyone wants to take a look, and >feel free to ask me to post any more files. They're all pretty small i.e. ><10k > >PS : Bg info on my system : Running Woody Testing / 2.4.7 kernel / xirc_2pcs >driver for pcmcia NIC. Sony VAIO laptop (don't think that'll be of much use >though :-) ) > >Thanks >George > -- A computer without windoze is like a fish without a bicycle. Who is John galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who. Finger me for PGP public key.