On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 7:13 AM, Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote: > Le 10/08/2016 à 13:22, Tom Browder a écrit : >> >> >> Ping from the test host itself to its primary first alias IP: >> >> PING 192.168.0.18 (192.168.0.18) 56(84) bytes of data. >>> >>> From 192.168.0.17 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable > > > It really looks like the secondary address is not configured on the host. > Did you check with "ip -4 addr" ?
$ ip -4 addr 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000 inet 192.168.0.17/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global eth0 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever Is there confusion in my Debian 8 between networking setting methods (ip ves ifconfig)? I'm in the dark and just following docs and helpful folks like you! Best, -Tom