The device must be setup before you can add aliases to it. Although I
feel its a bug that ifconfig doesn't issue an error message if you
haven't done so.
Kurth Bemis wrote:
>
> I have a server running 2.2.14 kernel debian. i just recompiled ip
> aliasing into the kernel. look at the session
>
> ---------------------
> usa:root [/]$ ifconfig eth0:0 206.183.143.100
> usa:root [/]$ ifconfig
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
> RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> Collisions:0
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:24:1C:22:C8
> inet addr:206.183.143.244 Bcast:206.183.143.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:1539 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:1095 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> Collisions:0
> Interrupt:11 Base address:0x250
>
> usa:root [/]$
>
> ---------------
>
> i don't see why it won't work..any ideas?
>
> ~kurth
>
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