Re: your mail

Mr. James W. Laferriere Network Engineer (babydr@nwrain.net)
Sun, 15 Jun 1997 12:07:49 -0700 (PDT)


Hello Alex,

When making your next kernel say 'y' to both

[*] Network Aliasing And further down
[*] Aliasing Support

Did the sam thing Myself not 2 weeks ago & I had done
this 'before' . ;-)

On Sun, 15 Jun 1997 logic@concept2000.net.au wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm having this problem when I try to ifconfig a dev.
>
> virtual:~# ifconfig eth0:0 whirred.ml.org
> net_alias_dev_create(eth0:0): unregistered family==2
> SIOCSIFADDR: Invalid argument
> virtual:~# Jun 15 21:43:02 virtual kernel: net_alias_dev_create(eth0:0):
> unregistered family==2
>
> I'm sure this is'nt really too linux related, but I could'nt find any
> other new's groups so forgive me :) -- Could anyone please tell me what I
> need to do? -- I installed ipalias in the kernel also. (compiled into
> kernel)
>
> Thanks,
> Alex

Hth, JimL
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