Hello again, As some readers may recall from last week, I was trying to get my machine to respond on multiple IP addresses on one interface. The solution, I was told, was webmin. So I got webmin working, and I found where in webmin to add IP addresses. But it didn't actually change my configuration one bit. [I'm guessing that maybe my paranoid Bastille configuration is causing some problems. I don't know for sure, since there doesn't seem to be any real documentation of what Bastille actually does to the system.] So I determined that I would make changes directly to the init.d scripts. I read the script /etc/init.d/network and discovered that it actually reads in all files whose names follow a certain pattern in a certain location, so I figured out that I shouldn't actually change the script itself. As root, I went into /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and copied ifcfg-eth1 three times, to ifcfg-eth1:1, ifcfg-eth1:2, and ifcfg-eth1:3. I then edited each new copy, changing the device name and IP address appropriately. After rebooting, my system appears to have all 4 of my public addresses working just fine. My question is, did I do this correctly? Is there anything that will be screwed up by configuring the alias interfaces this way? Thanks in advance for any insights. Chris Buxton
