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Hi all,

I would like to assign 2 or 3 IP addresses to my old 3C509 ethernet card.
I'm still running kernel 1.2.13.
Is there any HOWTO that I can read on this matter ?
Thanks for any pointer.

Aldo

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>I would like to assign 2 or 3 IP addresses to my old 3C509 ethernet card.
>I'm still running kernel 1.2.13.

Quote:>Is there any HOWTO that I can read on this matter ?

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I have a 'real' IP address (130.251.14.1, belva.infomus.dist.unige.it)
and a 'virtual' address (130.251.14.8 (AIMI.infomus.dist.unige.it, I use
it for a second WWW server with Apache).

To setup them I configured my kernel to use the dummy module, and I add
in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 the following lines:

# Setting up virtual address
exec /etc/IP_Alias &

And the script IP_Alias is in the attachment.

Edit it to adapt to your configuration, reboot and check if it works.

Bye,
        Marco.

[ IP_Alias < 1K ]
#!/bin/bash

# current ethernet address
echo "Starting IP_Alias..."
# This is my net-card HWaddress. You can find it with 'ifconfig'
ETH=00:40:33:24:EE:9C

# list of machine names to act as
# (The list of names to give to the virtual machines)
names="AIMI.dist.unige.it"

count=0

if [ "$1" = "stop" ]; then
  for addr in $names
  do
    /sbin/route del $addr
    /sbin/ifconfig dummy$count down
    /sbin/arp -d $addr
    /sbin/rmmod dummy$count
    echo dummy$count \!= $addr
    let count=$count+1
  done
elif [ "$1" = "start" -o "$1" = "" ]; then
  for addr in $names
  do
    echo dummy$count -\> $addr
    /sbin/insmod -o dummy$count /lib/modules/1.2.13/net/dummy.o
    /sbin/ifconfig dummy$count $addr -broadcast
    /sbin/route add $addr dummy$count
    /sbin/arp -s $addr $ETH pub
    let count=$count+1
  done
else
  echo 'Usage: '$0' [start|stop]'
fi

Thorough instructions can be found in NET2-HOWTO.

-javier