ip aliasing

[Robert Buecker]

But this looks like your nic driver isnt even up/working/blah since you're
getting no such device for just plain eth0 as well.

Robert

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Eason" <d.eason at home.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at maile.hi.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 11:34 PM
Subject: [luau] ip aliasing


> I just did a full install of slackware 7.1, I did this thinking it would
> install whatever file/package I was missing.  Previously I was attempting
> IP aliasing on my box, which i've done in the past with no problems at
> all.  These are the commands I've inputted with the last one failing,
> error messages will follow that line:
>
>
> /sbin/ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up
> /sbin/ifconfig eth0 203.175.7.201
> /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 203.175.7.208
> (note ip addies altered slightly)
>
> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device
>
>
> Keep in mine i'm not sure if ip_alias.o is loaded as a module, i was going
> to run /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ipv4/ip_alias.o just to make
> sure but I don't even have ip_alias.o on my machine which I don't
> understand because I did a full install, all 300+ megs.  Anyhelp would be
> appreciated.
>
>
> -Dave
>