On Saturday 09 July 2005 09:31, Ferindo Middleton Jr wrote: > I run the following commands at the shell to assign the > additional ip address to my FC4 server's NIC. > ifconfig eth0:2 192.168.1.3 > ifconfig eth0:3 192.168.1.4 > > I do this because I need to make these additional addresses > available for virtual hosts to accept requests on my apache > apache web server. > > How can I get these commands to run on boot up automatically > without me having run them manually. My httpd service fails to > start on boot up because it requires these addresses to already > be available on the NIC, but my setup initially only bring eth0:1 > up on 192.168.1.2. > > Ferindo > As an addendum to Alexander's advice, you can also take a read through the comments in the file: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases For example, I use the file: ifcfg-eth0-range0 like so: ============ IPADDR_START=192.168.1.42 IPADDR_END=192.168.1.180 CLONENUM_START=0 NO_ALIASROUTING=yes ============ to create aliases for all addresses from ...42 to ...180 in a single file which will be handy if you plan to expand your alias usage in the future as you won't have to create individual files. Regards, Mike Klinke
