[ILUG] IP address manipulation and routing

[Niall O Broin]

On 31 Mar 2005, at 14:45, P at draigBrady.com wrote:

> Why can't everyone ask lucid questions like you.

Why can't I tell if there's any sarcasm there or not?  :-)

>> One thought is to use route commands and specify  dev eth0:1  (or 
>> whatever) but I don't know if that's allowed in a dev specifier.
>
> yep, should work as can be seen here:
> http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/IP-Alias.html

Yes, it worked nicely. I gave it a whirl. I'm annoyed with myself 
actually, as it took rather less time to try the experiment that it did 
to type the blooming mail to the list :-) However, someone (you know 
who you are) suggested that  eth0:X  wasn't a valid dev specifier to 
route.


Niall