Re: Help!! Is this true??

[Tony Earnshaw <tonni@billy.demon.nl>]

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man, 2002-06-10 kl. 07:46 skrev OTR Comm:

> Is it true that iptables does not support virtual interfaces for virtual
> domains?

> That is, I have many virtual domains setup on virtual interfaces to eth0
> (e.g. eth0:1 xyz.xyz.xyz.xyz) currently running on a system with
> ipchains.  I am thinking about converting to a new kernel with iptables,
> but I can not get iptables to work with the virtual interfaces on eth0. 
> I setup a test server to verify that iptables would work, but I can not
> access any of my test domains (i.e., web sites through Apache) when I
> have the IP for the domain tied to a virtual interface.  If I shutdown
> my iptables firewall, I can access the web sites fine.

> What's up here, anybody got any ideas and solutions?

Instead of using aliases, if you have iproute2 installed and can use the
'ip' utility, give your eth0 (and perhaps other devices) actual
addresses.

The ip command is poorly - or rather too comprehensively - documented
and 'ip help' needs some fathoming, but here's a useful reference:

http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/ericw/ip-syntax.php

Best,

Tony

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