On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:48:10AM +0200, Armin Häberling wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm currently setting up a development machine of ours. For testing our > application it need two static ips. it does not need to be accessible > under these ips from outside. > Another interface should be configured via dhcp. I would use a static > ip, but it's a laptop that may be used in a lots of different networks. > > My /etc/network/interfaces looks like this > > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > auto eth1 > iface eth1 inet dhcp > > auto eth1:0 > iface eth1:0 inet static > address 172.16.2.201 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > broadcast 172.16.2.255 > > auto eth1:1 > iface eth1:1 inet static > address 172.16.2.201 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > broadcast 172.16.2.255
they are the same address ?
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> I set up the static ips in a private subnet.
>
> The problems with this solution is that eth1:0 and eth1:0 are not set up
> at boot time. They are only set up if I do a /etc/init.d/networking
> restart. The second is that if I unplug the network eth1:0 and eth1:1
> also go down. I would really like them to be up all the time (remeber
> that I don't care if they are not accessible from another machine).
why not add the addresses to lo then
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> There must be a better solution for this.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help
>
> Regards
> Armin
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