multicasting

[Rakotomandimby Mihamina]

08/19/2009 02:48 PM, Fred Roller:
> I can't speak to Network manager; but, from the command line you can set
> up an alternate IP as you would any other ethernet connection.  Just
> append a :[#] to the end of the connection name.  For example, if you
> multicast eth0, your first multicast would be on eth0:1.
> [...]
> froller at metis:~$ sudo ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.32.96

Just that, and it's supposed to belong to a "multicast group"?

>    This, of course, would not be persistent through a reboot and for that
> you would need to add it to the /etc/network/interfaces file.

Uh, if just that does it, /etc/network/interfaces is:

   iface eth0:1 inet static
     address 192.168.32.96

... Need for netmask, I think...




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