configuring network alias on laptop

[Alexander Volovics]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 01:35:05PM +0100, Wander Boessenkool wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 12:56 +0100, Alexander Volovics wrote:
 
> > But of course I want 'eth0:0' brought up, together with 'lo' and 'eth0',
> > at boot, automatically.
 
> try adding the lines:
> auto eth0
> auto eth0:0
> after the ine that reads 'auto lo'
> this will tell the initscripts to automagically bring up the interfaces 

Yes, but will this not bypass 'hotplug' (and how about 'suspend to ram',
(which I have not tried out yet))?

If I then need 'hotplug' will it fall back to only bringing up lo and eth0.

[All these situations should be accompanied with documentation containing
 flow charts with some pertinent remarks at the nodes. Having to search
 through a collection of scripts and a lot of not quite pertinent
 or unclear documentation in man pages is very frustrating].

Alexander