Plumb equivalent on Red Hat 9?

[Mike Burger]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Chris Purcell wrote:

> >> I'd like to assign a static secondary address to the NIC card.  I'm
> >> not running X server and have used netconfig but it's been unreliable,
> >> i.e. cloned interface was not coming up on reboot.
> >>
> >> So what's the best way to assign (remotely, through SSH using Putty)
> >> second IP address to an RH9 box?
> >
> >
> > Edit the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 file.  To make the
> > changes happen immediately, either restart the network service ("service
> > network restart"), or run "ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.1 netmask
> > 255.255.255.0".
> 
> 
> Sorry, I misread your post.  Make that the ifcfg-eth0:0 file and run
> "ifconfig eth0:0..." instead.

My experience, though, is that iptables doesn't seem to work, well, with 
subinterfaces.
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