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Re: Virtual network interfaces
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Mark . Burgess |
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Re: Virtual network interfaces |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:07:29 +0100 (MET) |
Anyone feel like writing a patch for this?
I'm swamped at present.
M
On 22 Nov, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> At 09:18 22/11/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>
>>Hi - I never even heard of virtual network interfaces(!!)
>>I would not know where to start on this one. CAn anyone
>>else help?
>
> On linux it's known as IP aliasing, and is simply a kernel option you
> enable. A regular interface is configured like this:
>
> ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
> route add default gw 192.168.1.1 dev eth0
>
> With ip aliasing you can then configure another interface like this:
>
> ifconfig eth0:0 10.119.48.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
> route add default gw 10.119.48.1 dev eth0:0
>
> and you can keep going up to eth0:255 and then start on eth1.
>
> Each alias shares the same physical attributes of the card used, so it will
> have the same MAC address and interface speed and interface byte counts
> will be cumulative for all aliases.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Martin A. Brooks
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