Remember to edit DEVICE variable and remove netmask. I wasn't following the thread, but you can avoid aliases altogether by creating /sbin/ifup-local (755). For details, see the last few lines of ifup-post. -paul Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: sunhux G <sunhux@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:21:41 To: linux clustering<linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: 2 IP addrs on one NIC : for 2 applications listening on same tcp port to bind to -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster