> 'ip addr' would look like this to me: > > 1: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 100 > link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > inet 192.168.1.1/27 brd 192.168.1.31 scope global eth0 > inet 192.168.1.2/27 brd 192.168.1.31 scope global secondary eth0:0 > inet 192.168.1.3/27 brd 192.168.1.31 scope global secondary eth0:1 > inet 192.168.1.4/27 brd 192.168.1.31 scope global secondary eth0:2 > ... > inet 192.168.1.30/27 brd 192.168.1.31 scope global secondary eth0:30 Absolutely. The "ip" utility must be used instead of "ifconfig", "route", "arp" and other obsolete utilities. Another note is that you can change the name of the interface with: ip link set DEVICE name NEW-NAME which will get rid of the ':' notation. This is most of the time the casue of the problem with some applications... Ramin
