Re: Can't get eth0:0 subinterface

[Jacob Anawalt]

debian.1 wrote:

Greetings:

I'm a current Redhat user _trying_ to switch to debian.  More under 
the hood
differences than I expected :-(

I need to add a static IP subintrface on eth0.  I used to just add a 
file in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts corresponding to the new intrface and 
reboot.
No problem

Now, I cant ge the d^%# thing to work.  I edited 
/etc/network/interfaces and
added the requisite section for the new interfaces:

iface eth0:0 inet static
        address ...etc....
But when I do a ifup/down, ifconfig still shows no subinterface.ipup 
-a give
me a list of SIOCSxxxxx No such device errors

What does one have to do to add a sub interface?  This is a freshly
installed and updated Woody system.  This was the first settign I tried to
change.  PITB.
Thanks very much for the time to help,

Things are definatly different in many places. I hope getting the hang 
of the Debian way doesn't prove to be too stressful.

I just added the eth0:0 entry to /etc/network/interfaces:

[copy]

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto eth0:0
iface eth0:0 inet static
   address 192.168.1.98
   network 192.168.1.0
   netmask 255.255.255.0
   broadcast 192.168.1.255
[/copy]

After issuing an ifup command, I had:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:01:02:26:0A:0A
         inet addr:192.168.1.8  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
         UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         RX packets:89510660 errors:139 dropped:0 overruns:97 frame:139
         TX packets:147560 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:6147 txqueuelen:100
         RX bytes:3035508172 (2.8 GiB)  TX bytes:44244548 (42.1 MiB)
         Interrupt:11 Base address:0xec00
eth0:0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:01:02:26:0A:0A
         inet addr:192.168.1.98  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
         UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         Interrupt:11 Base address:0xec00
Maybe some parameter in your settings for eth0:0 is incorrect.

--
Jacob
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