Hi, I'm replying to all that helped in this message. After posting, as always, I found the documentation for the maximum length of the interface names that Herbert refers to below. I had already `experimentally' determined that the names were in fact different, even if ifconfig truncates them when displaying.
I decided use shorter vserver names, because some tools I need do use ifconfig, and it wouldn't be practical for me to change them. Many thanks to all, Em Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 11:22:05PM +0200, Herbert Poetzl escreveu: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 12:21:07PM -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Ramiro Brito Willmersdorf wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm trying to create a vserver with three different ip addresses, > > > therefore I need three aliases: one for eth0 and two for eth1. > > > They end up named as (checked with ifconfig): > > > > > > eth0:zumb -> 192.168.10.10 > > > eth1:zumb -> 10.4.0.1 > > > eth1:zumb -> 10.5.0.1 > > > > > > The name of the vserver is zumbi. > > > Shouldn't the last two have different names? Should I name the > > > vserver with less than four characters (no big deal)? Should I not > > > worry about this? > > > > I think you'll find this is an issue with ifconfig. A nine (9) character > > display length. Had me confused for awhile when I first got caught by it. > > > > Fixes that may work or help. Vserver names of four or less characters. > > Use nameif and make eth0 and eth1 something shorter. WAN, LAN? > > actually no need for that, because the limit is at > 15 chars totla, which leaves 10 chars for vserver > (assuming ethX:), which in turn means that you can > have a name up to 9 chars, for up to 10 aliases, or > 8 chars for 100 (current max 16) aliases ... > > you can check that yourself, with the ip tool: > > # ifconfig eth0:somelongalias 10.0.0.1 > # ip addr show > inet 10.0.0.1/8 brd 10.255.255.255 scope global eth0:somelongal > > see http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Stuff/VServer-IP-Setup-0.1.txt > for further details (or the linux-vserver documentation) > > HTH, > Herbert > > > Rod -- Ramiro Brito Willmersdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key: http://www.demec.ufpe.br/~rbw/GPG/gpg_key.txt _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
