[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure eth1:1 ?

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 2011-10-17, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to configure a second IP address for eth1 using the syntax
> I found at
>
>   http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=2#doc_chap1
>
> But, it doesn't work.
>
> Here's my /etc/init.d/net file:
>
>   config_eth0="192.168.8.4/16"
>   routes_eth0="default via 192.168.0.254"
>   config_eth1=10.0.0.1/8"
>   192.168.250.1/24"
>
> But, starting eth1 says:
>
> # /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start
>  * Bringing up interface eth1
>  *   Starting netplug on eth1 ...                                 [ ok ]
>  *     Backgrounding ...
>  * ERROR: net.eth1 failed to start
>  
> Only eth1 is configured.  eth1:1 isn't configured.

I disabled netplug for both interfaces, and that got rid of the error
message:

# /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start
 * Bringing up interface eth1
 *   10.0.0.1/8 ...                                                  [ ok ]
 *   192.168.250.1/24 ...                                            [ ok ]
                                            
Now I can ping addresses in the 192.168.250/24 subnet. However, I
still don't see eth1:1 in netstat output the way that I do when I
manually configure it.  According TFM, eth1:1 should have been created
for the second address.  What gives?

How do you see the second IP address that's configured for an
interface if ifconfig won't show it to you?

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