Re: Sub Interfacing

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Ray Hauge wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I have been looking for some information on sub interfacing a network
> card. I know the card can handle it because there is already eth0:0,
> eth0:1, and eth0:2, I just haven't done this before.


It is called an alias interface. What information are you looking for
about it? To create an aliased interface, just use 'ifconfig' as you
normally would to create the primary interface. The commands are exactly
the same, except you would use 'eth0:n' instead of just 'eth0'.

~Jay

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