Hi, > I have read the current Debian networking docs on the subject > (https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration#iproute2_method). > I want to use at least two IPv4 static addresses on the same physical NIC.
[..] # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.17 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.0.1 dns-nameservers 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 # add new IPv4 devices up ip addr add 192.168.0.18/24 dev eth0 down ip addr del 192.168.0.18/24 dev eth0 up ip addr add 192.168.0.19/24 dev eth0 down ip addr del 192.168.0.19/24 dev eth0 This way eth0 will have 3 addresses, you don’t need the special labels or the $IFACE is only used in some scripts AFAIK. You might want to include the broadcast address but I think that is still in my config due to an old bug in previous version. I have lines like: up ip addr add 217.114.99.213/27 broadcast 217.114.99.223 dev eth3 on my firewall server where I have multiple addresses on the external interface to connect to multiple services. However... you also talk about your server being multi-homed in your subject, multi-homed means something else than just having multiple ip addresses in the same network on the same interface. What are you trying to achieve? Bonno Bloksma
