Setting up IP Aliasing on A Linux Machine Mini-HOWTO

Harish Pillay

 h.pillay@ieee.org 

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2001-01-23

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