On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 01:09:01PM +0200, John Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to be able to switch application daemons between > separate debian boxes and am looking for the most efficient way > to move the ip-address with it with as little hardcoding the > addresses as possible, in order to make the move completely > transparant to the users. > > In my opinion the most efficient way would be to set up > the applications ip address as a secondary one (eth0:1 etc.) and > bring it up and down as part of the process of starting and > stopping the application. > > After breaking my head over trying to use the logical > device mapping with ifupdown and only finally realising this is > meant to be used the other way around, I'm out of options and > ideas. > > Anybody do this before/has any hints, tips? >
At least from the command line ifconfig eth0:1 <ip> ... I think you could also put an entry in /etc/network interfaces of the sort: iface eth0:1 inet static ... But I don't know much about that. > Thanks in advance for any help! > > Sincerely, > > Jan. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
