What does eth0:1 mean (as opposed to eth0)
 

I am investigating why SERVER A at 217.158.66.68 can't talk to one at SERVER B at 217.158.66.69. I did an /sbin/ifconfig on SERVER A and got the following:



eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:E0:01:D1:28
inet addr:217.158.66.68 Bcast:217.158.66.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:11352991 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:11318710 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6200

eth0:1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:E0:01:D1:28
inet addr:217.158.66.69 Bcast:217.158.66.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6200


Loopback omitted. What does eth0:1 mean?

Cheers?

eth0:1 is a virtual network.

Take a look here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=202130

(From post 6)

Hope this helps.

it is the device name of your vlan or it is the device name of your second vlan

old post.

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