Re: [rock-user] alias ip interface

Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> Hmm, how can I confiure an alias ip address on an interface?
> Simply adding eth2:1  and an ip tag does not help and gives an syntax
> error:.
> ----  snip  ----
> Interface / profile matched: eth2(eth2)
> Interface / profile matched: eth2:1(eth2:1)
> /etc/network/rocknet: line 1: return: 1:1: numeric argument required
> /etc/network/rocknet: line 1: return: 1:1: numeric argument required
> ----  snip  ----

IPs don't have aliases on linux 2.4+, you have one interface (eth2) with 
  many IP Addresses.
Another difference is the way to specify netmask, instead of adding 
255.255.255.0 you say /24 as the number of 1s the old number has in 
binary form.

Alejandro