256 is the maxium amount of ip address that can be bound to a single nic Albert Smith Sr. Unix Systems Administrator Genex Services 440 E. Swedesford Rd. Wayne, PA 19087 albert.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (610) 964-5154 -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Jason Williard Sent: Tue 2/15/2005 1:17 AM To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list' Subject: RE: Multiple IPs on single interface That worked. Thank you very much. Do you know if there is a max limit on how many IP's can be attached to a single interface? Also, is there a way to add an entire subnet without creating 1 file for each IP? --- Thank You, Jason Williard PCSafe, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of IAK Tanoli Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 10:08 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Multiple IPs on single interface Modify the file as following. DEVICE=eth0:1 ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx NETMASK=255.255.254.0 GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx HWADDR=00:00:00:00:00:00 --- Jason Williard <jason@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a box with Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES > release 3 installed on it. > Today, I acquired 2 additional IP addresses for it. > I can add the IP > addresses using the following commands, but they are > not permanent. > > # ifconfig eth0 add xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask > 255.255.254.0 > # ifconfig eth0:0 add xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask > 255.255.254.0 > > As this was not making it permanent, I created 2 > files (ifcfg-eth0:0 & > ifcfg-eth0:0:1) inside the > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ directory. The > first file works and interface eth0:0 comes up at > startup. However, the > second interface stays down. Below is the content > of the two files: > > ifcfg-eth0:0 > --- > DEVICE=eth0:0 > ONBOOT=yes > BOOTPROTO=static > IPADDR=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > NETMASK=255.255.254.0 > GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > HWADDR=00:00:00:00:00:00 > --- > > ifcfg-eth0:0:1 > --- > DEVICE=eth0:0:1 > ONBOOT=yes > BOOTPROTO=static > IPADDR=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > NETMASK=255.255.254.0 > GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > HWADDR=00:00:00:00:00:00 > --- > > > --- > Thank You, > Jason Williard > PCSafe, Inc. > > > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe > mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > ===== -- ________________ Imtiaz Ahmed Khan Sr. System Consultant ANTS Consultiing Org: ANTS Consulting URL: http://ants.com.pk/ Eml: sendtoimtiaz@xxxxxxxxx Mob: +92300-2128278 ___________________________________ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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