From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Damion de Soto Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 00:37:21 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Aliases and Multipath Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Hi Guillermo, > iptables just does not likes eth0:1 neither eth0:2, is this the right > behaviour of iptables or what? i read something about NAT in advance > routing engine but never used before and i'm little confuse on how it > works. Will it crash with iptables NAT engine? As far as I know, the ethX:X terminology is just for ifconfig usage. Inside the kernel, eth0:1 is exactly the same as eth0. So for iptables rules, you just use the eth0:1 IP address with eth0. this is the same way the 'ip' tool works too. Regards, Damion. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Damion de Soto - Software Engineer email: damion@snapgear.com SnapGear - A CyberGuard Company --- ph: +61 7 3435 2809 | Custom Embedded Solutions fax: +61 7 3891 3630 | and Security Appliances web: http://www.snapgear.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --- Free Embedded Linux Distro at http://www.snapgear.org --- _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/