Setting up IP Aliasing on A Linux Machine Mini-HOWTO

Harish Pillay

Joy Yokley - Converted document from HTML to DocBook v4.1 (SGML)

2001-01-23

Revision History
Revision 1.2 2001-01-26 Revised by: JEY
Revision 1.1 2001-01-24 Revised by: JEY
Revision 1.0 1997-01-13 Revised by: HP

This is a cookbook recipe on how to set up and run IP aliasing on a Linux box and how to set up the machine to receive e-mail on the aliased IP addresses.


Table of Contents
1. My Setup
2. Commands
3. Troubleshooting: Questions and Answers
3.1. Question: How can I keep the settings through a reboot?
3.2. Question: How do I set up the IP aliased machine to receive e-mail on the various aliased IP addresses (on a machine using sendmail)?
4. Acknowledgements