[SunHELP] mutilhomed ethernet

Hichael Morton mh1272 at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 13 19:54:46 CDT 2003


to have a multihomed host, you will need to install another interface. 
it can't be multihomed with just one interface.

you can have two ip address on the same interface if one if "real", 
eri0, and the other is "virtual", eri0:1.



Michael A. Turner wrote:
> 	Any and all,
> 
> 	I wish to add an internal network address to my solaris machine in
> addition to it's external address. The router that it is connected to can
> handle both requests. I have tried to find a way to bind this second IP
> address to my eri0 interface but I cannot figure it out. I have added the
> internal address to the hosts file with a different name from the external
> address. Defualtrouter has the correct router in it.ifconfig shows me this
> for the interface : eri0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4>
> mtu 1500 index 2 inet 64.5.141.5 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 64.5.141.255.How
> can I make this machine think that it is operating both on the 192.168.99.*
> internal network and the 64.5.141.* external network off of this one
> interface?
> 
> 
> Michael A. Turner
> Systems Engineer WHRO
> michael.turner at whro.org
> http://www.whro.org
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