In UBUNTU 7.04 I have not been able to create aliases for the network interface. <br><br>I modified the /etc/network/intercaes to:<br><br>auto lo<br>iface lo inet loopback<br><br>auto eth0<br>iface eth0 inet dhcp<br><br>auto eth0:0
<br>iface eth0:0 inet static<br> address <a href="http://192.168.0.2">192.168.0.2</a><br> network <a href="http://192.168.0.0">192.168.0.0</a><br> broadcast <a href="http://192.168.0.255">192.168.0.255</a><br>
netmask <a href="http://255.255.255.0">255.255.255.0</a><br><br>auto eth0:1<br>iface eth0:1 inet static<br> address <a href="http://192.168.0.3">192.168.0.3</a><br> network <a href="http://192.168.0.0">192.168.0.0
</a><br> broadcast <a href="http://192.168.0.255">192.168.0.255</a><br> netmask <a href="http://255.255.255.0">255.255.255.0</a><br><br>auto eth0:2<br>iface eth0:2 inet static<br> address <a href="http://192.168.0.4">
192.168.0.4</a><br> network <a href="http://192.168.0.0">192.168.0.0</a><br> broadcast <a href="http://192.168.0.255">192.168.0.255</a><br> netmask <a href="http://255.255.255.0">255.255.255.0</a><br><br>auto eth0:3
<br>iface eth0:3 inet static<br> address <a href="http://192.168.0.5">192.168.0.5</a><br> network <a href="http://192.168.0.0">192.168.0.0</a><br> broadcast <a href="http://192.168.0.255">192.168.0.255</a><br>
netmask <a href="http://255.255.255.0">255.255.255.0</a><br><br>root@abril:~# ifconfig<br>
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:11:76:5F:68 <br>
inet addr:<a href="http://200.84.240.218">200.84.240.218</a> Bcast:<a href="http://200.84.255.255">200.84.255.255</a> Mask:<a href="http://255.255.224.0">255.255.224.0</a><br>
inet6 addr: fe80::211:11ff:fe76:5f68/64 Scope:Link<br>
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1<br>
RX packets:7124 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0<br>
TX packets:6702 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0<br>
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 <br>
RX bytes:6952014 (6.6 MiB) TX bytes:1145898 (1.0 MiB)<br>
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lo Link encap:Local Loopback <br>
inet addr:<a href="http://127.0.0.1">127.0.0.1</a> Mask:<a href="http://255.0.0.0">255.0.0.0</a><br>
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host<br>
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1<br>
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0<br>
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0<br>
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 <br>
RX bytes:460 (460.0 b) TX bytes:460 (460.0 b)<br><br><br>I get no errors <br>and I can do it manually by the command:<br><br>root@abril:~# ifconfig eth0:0 <a href="http://192.168.0.2">192.168.0.2</a> network <a href="http://192.168.0.0">
192.168.0.0</a> netmask <a href="http://255.255.255.0">255.255.255.0</a><br><br><br>and get:<br><br>root@abril:~# ifconfig<br>eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:11:76:5F:68 <br> inet addr:<a href="http://200.84.240.218">
200.84.240.218</a> Bcast:<a href="http://200.84.255.255">200.84.255.255</a> Mask:<a href="http://255.255.224.0">255.255.224.0</a><br> inet6 addr: fe80::211:11ff:fe76:5f68/64 Scope:Link<br> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
<br> RX packets:7124 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0<br> TX packets:6702 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0<br> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 <br> RX bytes:6952014 (6.6 MiB) TX bytes:1145898 (
1.0 MiB)<br><br>eth0:0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:11:76:5F:68 <br> inet addr:<a href="http://192.168.0.0">192.168.0.0</a> Bcast:<a href="http://192.168.0.255">192.168.0.255</a> Mask:<a href="http://255.255.255.0">
255.255.255.0</a><br> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1<br><br>lo Link encap:Local Loopback <br> inet addr:<a href="http://127.0.0.1">127.0.0.1</a> Mask:<a href="http://255.0.0.0">
255.0.0.0</a><br> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host<br> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1<br> RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0<br> TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
<br> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 <br> RX bytes:460 (460.0 b) TX bytes:460 (460.0 b)<br><br><br>Can somebody provide some help here ??<br><br>By the way, it works fine in UBUNTU 6.06<br><br>Thanks in advance.....
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