[Gllug] Two IPs and one NIC

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:16:12PM +0000, John Maclean wrote:
> Dumb question of the day. Is it possible for a box two have two ip addy's one one NIC?

yes

Eg, on one of my boxes:

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:18:4D:EA:87:08  
          inet addr:192.168.145.12  Bcast:192.168.145.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::218:4dff:feea:8708/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:85700 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1099040 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:42981694 (40.9 MiB)  TX bytes:333632102 (318.1 MiB)
          Interrupt:66 Base address:0xc00 

eth1:1    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:18:4D:EA:87:08  
          inet addr:192.168.1.254  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          Interrupt:66 Base address:0xc00 


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