Linux box on multiple subnets

travis at scootz.net travis at scootz.net
Thu Dec 23 11:28:01 EST 2004


Holy crap!

I clean, quick, easy to follow answer from Ben.. the world must be coming
to an end. :)

Thanks Ben, this is -EXACTLY- what I was looking for.


>> Can somebody help me out with the basics of setting up a Linux box to
>> be  on multiple subnets.
>
> New way (iproute2):
>
> 	ip addr add 192.168.10.5/24 broadcast 192.168.10.255 dev eth0
> 	ip addr add 10.0.0.22/8 broadcast 10.255.255.255 dev eth0
>
> Old way (interface aliases):
>
> 	ifconfig eth0 192.168.10.5 netmask 255.255.255.0
> 	ifconfig eth0:1 10.0.0.27 netmask 255.0.0.0
>
>   The new way is cleaner and more flexible, but may confuse people or
> software used to the old "ifconfig" method (which assumes one IP address
> per interface).
>
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