[wplug] Multiple Static IP's

[Ken]

At the moment, I have one for ETH0 (NET) and ETH1 (LOCAL). I was not sure which woud 
be the best approach. Adding cards or as Chris suggests.

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From: George Gensure <werkt0 at gmail.com>
To: General user list <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:42:00 -0400
Subject: Re: [wplug] Multiple Static IP's

> I'm reminded of a time when having more than one ethernet card
> required adding parms to the kernel.  are you dealing with more than
> one card or multiple addresses (as prescribed above) on one card?
> 
> alter,
> -George
> 
> On 6/15/05, Christopher DeMarco <cmd at alephant.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 05:55:55PM -0400, Ken wrote:
> > 
> > > The part I'm unsure of is how to configure ETH0 with more than I
> > > address. Or is it just as easy to use multiple cards as ETH0,
> > > ETH1,...
> > 
> > It's easy to do with a single card:
> > 
> > onion ~ # ip addr add 10.0.0.254/24 dev eth0
> > onion ~ #       ip addr add 10.0.0.253/24 dev eth0
> > onion ~ #       ip addr add 10.0.0.252/24 dev eth0
> > 
> > onion ~ # ip addr
> > 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
> >     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
> >     inet 127.0.0.1/8 brd 127.255.255.255 scope host lo
> > 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
> >     link/ether 00:0f:1f:fa:d5:71 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> >     inet 10.0.0.254/24 brd 10.0.0.255 scope global eth0
> >     inet 10.0.0.253/24 scope global secondary eth0
> >     inet 10.0.0.252/24 scope global secondary eth0
> > 
> > 
> > Of course, this presumes that you've got a fairly modern kernel
> > (~2.3?) and have the iproute2 userspace tools installed.
> > Unfortunately there's no man page for that package (a nice project for
> > any students out there seeking fame and glory!); you have to use "ip
> > help", "ip addr help", "ip link help" etc. to figure out how to use
> > the dang thing... </rant>
> > 
> > Your distro also very likely has a config file somewhere that controls
> > this - c.f. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts in Red Hat,
> > /etc/conf.d/network in Gentoo, et. al.
> > 
> > 
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