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From: Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to configure eth1:1 ?
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:48:51
Message-Id: 4E9CA283.1060000@binarywings.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to configure eth1:1 ? by Florian Philipp
1 Am 17.10.2011 23:42, schrieb Florian Philipp:
2 > Am 17.10.2011 23:25, schrieb Grant Edwards:
3 >> I'm trying to configure a second IP address for eth1 using the syntax
4 >> I found at
5 >>
6 >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=2#doc_chap1
7 >>
8 >> But, it doesn't work.
9 >>
10 >> Here's my /etc/init.d/net file:
11 >>
12 >> config_eth0="192.168.8.4/16"
13 >> routes_eth0="default via 192.168.0.254"
14 >> config_eth1=10.0.0.1/8"
15 >> 192.168.250.1/24"
16 >>
17 >> But, starting eth1 says:
18 >>
19 >> # /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start
20 >> * Bringing up interface eth1
21 >> * Starting netplug on eth1 ... [ ok ]
22 >> * Backgrounding ...
23 >> * ERROR: net.eth1 failed to start
24 >>
25 >> Only eth1 is configured. eth1:1 isn't configured.
26 >>
27 >>
28 >
29 > eth1 is the second physical interface (which you don't have). From
30 > /usr/share/doc/openrc-0.8.3-r1/net.example.bz2
31 >
32 > # If you need more than one address, you can use something like this
33 > # NOTE: ifconfig creates an aliased device for each extra IPv4 address
34 > # (eth0:1, eth0:2, etc)
35 > # iproute2 does not do this as there is no need to
36 > config_eth0="192.168.0.2/24 192.168.0.3/24 192.168.0.4/24"
37 > # However, that only works with CIDR addresses, so you can't use
38 > # netmask.
39 >
40 > Regards,
41 > Florian Philipp
42 >
43
44 Ugh, sorry. Just ignore that. I didn't see the second line in
45 config_eth1. The odd quoting confused me.

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[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure eth1:1 ? Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>