On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Patrick Putteman 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.
works fine in 7.0
> 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.
This is NOT his choice, we have private ip space on the grounds that it
will never be connected to the internet. please please please read the rfc
1918
> 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
> >
>
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