Re: newbie question-ip aliasing

["ddbrown" <ddbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Bruce

Thanks for the reply. These are results of  ifconfig & netstat -rn commands

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:80:C8:FD:12:15
          inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:163 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:353 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6200

eth0:0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:80:C8:FD:12:15
          inet addr:192.168.200.100  Bcast:192.168.200.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6200

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
          RX packets:57 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:57 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

Kernel IP routing table
Destination              Gateway                Genmask              Flags
MSS Window  irtt Iface
192.168.200.100    0.0.0.0                  255.255.255.255  UH        0
0          0     lo
192.168.200.100    0.0.0.0                 255.255.255.255   UH        0
0          0 eth0
192.168.1.0            0.0.0.0                 255.255.255.0       U
0       0          0 eth0
192.168.200.0        0.0.0.0                 255.255.255.0       U
0       0          0 eth0
0.0.0.0                    192.168.1.100     0.0.0.0                   UG
0       0          0 eth0

Thanks
Darren

----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce Smith <bruce@armintl.com>
To: <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 3:40 AM
Subject: Re: newbie question-ip aliasing


> > 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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> System Administrator / Network Administrator
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