I found what the problem is... I have Firestarter installed and If I turn it off I can access the web site with the ip alias. I wouldn't like to have to turn the firewall off. Any thoughts? TIA, --JM -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alexander Dalloz Sent: 23 June 2005 23:56 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: Betr.: Multiple IP Addresses in a single NIC Am Fr, den 24.06.2005 schrieb Thom van der Boon um 0:34: > You need to issue two commands: > > /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > /sbin/route add -host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx dev eth0 > > For example: > > /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 172.16.1.199 > /sbin/route add -host 172.16.1.199 dev eth0 No route setting needed. The aliased device is anyway handled over the real device. > You can even assign multiple aliases to one NIC (One of my servers has about 10 ip addresses): > > For example: > > /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 172.16.1.199 > /sbin/route add -host 172.16.1.199 dev eth0 > > /sbin/ifconfig eth0:1 172.16.1.198 > /sbin/route add -host 172.16.1.198 dev eth0 > > /sbin/ifconfig eth0:2 172.16.1.197 > /sbin/route add -host 172.16.1.197 dev eth0 > > and so on..... > > You should write an startup script to execute these commands at boot time, because after a reboot the aliases are forgotten. This isn't recommended this way. > Thom van der Boon CentOS has native configuration ways to handle aliased devices. Either by running redhat-config-network (3.5) or system-config-network (4.1) and then choosing an aliased device or by hand: copying /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 as ifcfg-eth1:0 ... ifcfg-eth1:1 ... and then changing the content of the ifcfg-eth0:X file regarding DEVICE name, IP data and HWADDR (MAC). A "service network restart" will bring up the new aliased device(s) together with the real ones. "ifconfig" shows eth0:X (X0number) and "ip addr ls" will show the additional IP(s) as part of the real device. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.27_FC2smp Serendipity 00:40:31 up 2 days, 8:54, load average: 0.44, 0.45, 0.35