Re: Virtual network interfaces

[Jerry Christopher]

For reference, we've been on 1.6.3 for a couple years now and have had 
zero issue with Cfengine and logical interfaces on Solaris 7 or 8.  

Predgrag, can you provide a little more about your config files and how 
you're trying to set things up?  What are you trying to do?

Thanks,
Jerry



Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:

> 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
> > ---------------------------------
> > I/O, I/O, it's off to disk we go,
> > A bit or byte, to read or write,
> > I/O, I/O, I/O......
> >
> >
> >
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