[wplug] aliased interfaces and dhcp

[Brie Gordon]

Might this discussion (which leads to VLAN tagging) point you in the right
direction?:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/how-to-assign-two-ips-on-same-nic-611662/

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Patrick Wagstrom <patrick at wagstrom.net>
wrote:

> Hey, I've got one ethernet connection that I'd like to have two IP
> addresses.  Normally this is pretty straight forward, but all the
> documentation just covers static IP addresses, in which case you can have
> eth0 have DHCP or static, but eth0:1 must be static -- largely because it
> has the same mac address.  Running "ifconfig hw eth0 ether
> XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX" doesn't seem to do the trick either as it changes both
> mac addresses.
>
> Is there a way to create a virtual interface with a different mac address
> that I can then use to get another DHCP address?
>
> Many thanks?
>
> --Patrick
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