[ILUG] Ubuntu networking questions

[Niall O Broin]

On 23 Feb 2006, at 09:59, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:

>> OK - I could have hazarded a guess at that one, but that will give me
>> an ethX:1 interface, no? Whereas what I wanted to do was add another 
>> ip
>> to ethX.
>
> Yep, but is that really a problem?

Not a huge one, no.

> There's no built in-way to add IPv4 addresses afaik, in IPv6 the 
> sub-int addresses will be stacked on the primary one though. So you'd 
> have to hack in a command to add it, be aware that this will seriously 
> complicate default source-address selection though, which can be a 
> pain.


Can you elaborate a little?



Niall