You have got to be kidding! I am running Mandrake 6.1 ans 7.0 and
I have 12 ips on one card on both machines. These are both production web and
ftp servers.
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> I'd rather see Mandrakesoft fix the IP Aliasing problem that exists with
> Mandrake 6.x and probably 7 (haven't tried that yet) than give
> unconstructive comments.
>
> If Mr. Litwiller wants to put 2 ip's, one private and one public, on the
> same nic, that's his choice and should normally work. I can even see some
> particular setups where this would be a logical choice.
>
> The thing is, IP Aliasing has been broken since Mandrake 6, and although
> there have been several questions asked in the expert and newbie mailing
> list, I haven't seen one sollution from Mandrake that actually makes it work
> for me!
>
> I've too far integrated my Mandrake 6.1 server into our company network
> (bind and dhcp server and monitoring tools as Netsaint and MRTG) to switch
> to another distro. If I knew what I know now I wouldn't choose Mandrake
> anymore. But, I need IP Aliasing!!
>
> The thing is, although I'm still excited about what Mandrake represents and
> all the good intentions I don't think Mandrake will ever become THE linux
> distro because of basic problems and the lack of sollutions.
>
> You'll never hear me say that Linux has to be simple, has to be installed
> with a graphical interface, has to be drag and drop, plug and play, .... I
> knew that when I chose to integrate Linux in our company network, I'd have
> to actually work on it to get it going (once it's running, it's a pleasure
> to keep it that way though), but I'm not a programmer, I'm a system engineer
> and don't think that I'm supposed to fix some source code because someone
> forgot to replace a comma by a dot in a makefile just before uploading his
> tarball....
>
> Patrick
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Axalon Bloodstone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "expert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 9:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [expert] 2 IP address - 1 nic
>
>
> > On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Timothy Litwiller wrote:
> >
> > > how do I put two ip addresses to the same network card -
> > >
> > > specifically I would like to use my public IP address 203.53.###.53 and
> > > a private ip address 192.168.2.53 on the same card.
> >
> > You must be jokeing....
> >
> > > also if this works then what do I need to do to make samba function only
> > > on the private ip#
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
> > --Axalon
> >
