Re: newbie question-ip aliasing

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I've set up ip aliasing on my debian box but can't seem to ping
> the alias ip address from my windows client (I can ping locally).
> I 've been told I need to enable ip forwarding but after reading
> the documentation I am still unsure. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.

IP forwarding is usually only needed if you have two network cards,
to forward traffic from one subnet (NIC) to another.

IP aliasing is two IP addresses on the same network card.  Usually
those two addresses are on the same subnet.

What are all of the IP addresses & subnet masks on that box?
Can you supply the output of the following commands:

  ifconfig

  netstat -rn

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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