Can anyone help with binding multiple IP addresses to a nic card in Linux 7.3? I have added them and activated them, however, when I reboot, they don't all seem to "stick". Also, in GUI mode, they can show as activated, however when I type "ifconfig" in the command line, only a few will show as recognized. Thanks for any help.

Hello,

In Linux IP addresses other than the default (eth0:x) will not be remembered after a reboot. The best thing to do is put your ipconfig commands to add the aliases in /etc/rc.d/rc.local. If you need the interfaces to be active prior to a specific application (MySQL, Apache, etc..) you will need to set up an init script in /etc/rc.d/init.d and link to it in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d and give it a sequence # low enough to run prior to your application(s).

Ouch, I'm rambling...

--Eric

Take a look at the manual:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...TERFACES-OTHER

I am trying to set up virtual hosts using unique IP addresses. David, I looked at the manual link you provided, but it is talking about aliases, which I don't think pertains to my situation, but if I was looking in the wrong area, please let me know. Thanks for any help.

Can I make sure we know what you want.

Do you want your server to have multiple DNS names AND multiple IP addresses?
OR
Do you just want multiple DNS entries poiting to the one IP address?

Is this for serving websites using apache?

What sort of network connection do you have?

Ok .... I am trying to bind multiple IP addresses to one host (server). One domain name (DNS name) will be linked to numerous IP addresses, and yes, it is for websites using Apache.
Thanks for your help.

David,

If multiple IP addresses cannot be bound to one DNS name, then multiple DNS names would be ok .... the thing that I'd like to ensure, though, is that I would have 5 or 6 unique IP addresses linked to this one server. Do you know how to do that? Thanks again!

The doc I linked to shows you how to have multiple IP addresses on a network card. Note that you don't "need" multiple ip addresses to host multiple sites. You can just point several dns entries to one ip address then let apache's VirtualHost directive figure out which pages to serve.

If the PC does not have a public ip address then it may not be as easy to get multiple ip addresses on the system due to routing problems.

Unless there is a specific reason for wanting multiple ip addresses I wouldn't bother.

For Red Hat systems, in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ you have the configuration files for your network devices. There you will find for your first ethernet device a file ifcfg-eth0 which will contain something similar to

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
IPADDR=192.168.1.1
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
ONBOOT=yes

If you now want to bind another address to this card, then create a file
ifcfg-eth0:0 containing something similar to

DEVICE=eth0:0
BOOTPROTO=static
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
IPADDR=192.168.1.2
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
ONBOOT=yes

Repeat for different addresses to be bound with ifcfg-eth0:1, ifcfg-eth0:2
etc. up to ifcfg-eth0:N for the (N+1)th additional address.

If you have a 2nd ethernet card, and you want to bind extra IP addresses to that, then the files would be ifcfg-eth1:0, ifcfg-eth1:1, etc

easier way:

netconfig -d eth0
netconfig -d eth0:1
netconfig -d eth0:2
netconfig -d eth0:3
.....
.....

config files will be created here.