On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 22:41 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Jonathan Carpenter > > Sent: Sat 11/19/2005 10:25 PM > > To: Fedora-Redhat-List > > Subject: Multiple IP with one nic > > > > I have several servers that are not doing to much and I need to combine them > > in to one. Is there anyway that I can give one server multiple IP's and > > hostnames? So the network will see this one server as several? > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > create file: > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0 > > in it put: > > ####### > DEVICE=eth0:0 > BOOTPROTO=static > BROADCAST=10.10.0.255 > IPADDR=10.10.0.150 > NETMASK=255.255.255.0 > NETWORK=10.10.0.0 > ONBOOT=yes > TYPE=Ethernet > ####### > > > replace the information in this example with your network settings, then restart the network > > service network restart > > Test, and repeat with eth0:1 eth0:2 and so on. Note that if the original owner of the IP address you are assigning to eth0:1 is still up when you do this you will get strange results. Different implementations of arp do different things when there are multiple machines with the same IP address. -- Graham Campbell <gc1111@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>