On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 02:05:10AM +0000, Niall O Broin wrote:
> I'm curious as to when exactly the up and down commands are run. Surely
> they must be synonymous with either pre-up/post-up and
> pre-down/post-down ?
up is synonymous with post-up and down is synonymous with pre-down :)
> And on that note, is there a kosher way of adding a secondary IP
> address to an interface via the interfaces file, or is something like
>> post-up ip addr add a.b.c.d/n dev ethX
>> the only way to do it?
Use subinterfaces, ie:
iface ethX:1
address a.b.c.d
netmask 255.255.255.255
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