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I'm using solaris 2.3 and am wondering if there is any way to assign multiple
IP addresses to a network interface. Is it possible to set up dummy interfaces
and then route all traffice through one real interface. I need to be able
to assign 48 different IP addresses to our sun for testing purposes and I
don't see any way of doing this short of buying 48 ethernet cards.

Any help?

Thanks...

-- John

  I'm using solaris 2.3 and am wondering if there is any way to assign multiple
  IP addresses to a network interface. Is it possible to set up dummy interfaces
  and then route all traffice through one real interface. I need to be able
  to assign 48 different IP addresses to our sun for testing purposes and I
  don't see any way of doing this short of buying 48 ethernet cards.

  Any help?

  Thanks...

  -- John

I don't know if there's a limit to how many "aliases" you can have for
one interface, but yes, there is a way (2.4, don't know about 2.3 -- try it).

Just ifconfig the interface with the desired parameters, appending a ":#"
(where # is 1, 2, ...) after the interface name (le0:1, for example).

Here's the output of ifconfg -a on my system now:

lo0: flags=849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 8232
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
le0: flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 35.8.160.5 netmask fff80000 broadcast 35.15.255.255
        ether 8:0:20:18:13:24
le0:1: flags=843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 35.8.160.2 netmask fff80000 broadcast 35.15.255.255

And, sure enough, my machine answers to either 35.8.160.5 or 35.8.160.2.

-Terry
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It works in 2.3, just like in 2.4.

Casper

Quote:Brzezniak) writes:
>   Hi,

>   I'm using solaris 2.3 and am wondering if there is any way to assign
multiple
>   IP addresses to a network interface....

http://www.thesphere.com/%7Edlp/TwoServers/

for some relevant info.

Jeremy