I have been hacking at a problem with DHCP where an aliased interface doesn't appear to work properly though a physical device does. I just found a an interesting result that has to do with the routing table. Originally, I configured eth0 to carry routable IP addresses and eth0:0 to carry 192.168.1.0/24 addresses. DHCP is offering 192.168.1.0/24 addresses to machines that ask. My routing table was populated with the route for eth0:0 this way: route add -net 192.168.1.0 eth0:0 Ping works, heck everything works, except DHCP. When I change the route to route add -net 192.168.1.0 eth0 Ping work...and DHCP works. What tipped me was that I was receive network unreachable messages from DHCP. So, is it wrong to add routes for aliased devices? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
