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From: Z <z-mlist@×××××××××××.nz>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] mysterious Problem
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 20:34:22
Message-Id: 20020612133358.56a21ca9.z-mlist@inspire.net.nz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] mysterious Problem by MadCoder
1 On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:05:29 +0200
2 MadCoder <pierre.habouzit@×××.org> wrote:
3
4 > Le Mardi 11 Juin 2002 18:02, Adam Voigt a écrit :
5 > > Dirty workaround, add a line where you configure the interface with it's
6 > > alias (using ifconfig) to your rc.local, that way you can specifiy
7 > > whatever you want as if you were using the ifconfig command.
8 > that's allready what I'm doing with a
9 >
10 > ifconfig eth0:1 129.104.221.100 netmask 255.255.255.0
11 >
12 > but on my Debian, when I create an alias, it always takes the same netmask
13 > than the main adress. So I was a little surprised.
14 > --
15 > MadCoder (53 53)
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17 You could always use the iproute2 commands if you have them installed -- eg:
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19 ip addr add dev eth0 129.104.221.100/24
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21 The above adds the address 129.104.221.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 to eth0 (I think this is equivalent to an alias when using ifconfig).
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24 Z