[vox-tech] binding multi ip's to single iface in debian

[ME]

On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 mrdoug@attbi.com wrote:
> Ok, didn't realize it was a kernel option... but it makes
> sense. I should have said that I'm using 2.4.18 kernel. I
> can't find an option for CONFIG_IP_ALIAS and the
> Configure.help for this version doesn't have this entry.
> What version of the kernel did you find this?

v2.2.

It is possible that this feature has just been enabled and forced "on" in
2.4 series kernels. What happens when you try to configure an interface
called eth0:0 instead of eth0 (or whatever interface you want to bind
multiple IP addresses to ?

-ME

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> > Kernel compile/config option:
> > 
> > CONFIG_IP_ALIAS
> > 
> > (linux kernel src path)/Documentation/Configure.help )
> > ---
> > CONFIG_IP_ALIAS
> >   Sometimes it is useful to give several IP addresses to a single
> >   physical network interface (serial port or Ethernet card). The most
> >   common case is that you want to serve different WWW or ftp documents
> >   to the outside depending on which of your host names was used to
> >   connect to you. This is called "multihosting" or "virtual domains"
> >   or "virtual hosting services" and is explained in detail on the WWW
> >   at http://www.thesphere.com/~dlp/TwoServers/ (to browse the WWW, you
> >   need to have access to a machine on the Internet that has a program
> >   like lynx or netscape) and also in the Virtual-Services-HOWTO,
> >   available via FTP (user: anonymous) from
> >   ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO.
> > 
> >   Another scenario would be that there are two logical networks living
> >   on your local Ethernet and you want to access them both with the
> >   same Ethernet card. This can also be done if you say Y here.
> > 
> >   The configuration of these alias addresses is done with a special
> >   name syntax explained in Documentation/networking/alias.txt and in
> >   the IP-Alias mini-HOWTO. If you want this, say Y. Most people don't
> >   need it and say N.
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > After you have this enables, you can ifconfig the interface with
> > ifconfig eth0:0 blah
> > and
> > ifconfig eth0:1 blah
> > etc...
> > 
> > Check ut the readmes they ref in the kernel doc, they explain more than my
> > "blah" :-)
> > 
> > -ME
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> > On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 mrdoug@attbi.com wrote:
> > > Can anybody point me towards a doc on binding 2 ip's to a
> > > single interface under debian?
> > > 
> > > It seems to me that it has something to do with
> > > /etc/network/interfaces but I can't seem to figure out
> > > the syntax
> > > 
> > > -Doug
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