From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Subject: Re: Help with alias interfaces Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 20:22:45 +0200 (CEST) Sender: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <2317.82.160.70.13.1087842165.squirrel@www.elpec.com> References: <003301c457b2$d516e860$1930090a@paol> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <003301c457b2$d516e860$1930090a@paol> Errors-To: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org > Hello > Try this: > ip link set eth0:x name shit1 > > and then... > iptables -A FORWARD -i shit1 -do something > > I did "ip link set eth0:1 name ble1" and I get respond: "SIOCSIFNAME: Device or resource busy" eth0 is up and eth0:1 is down. Where is the hatch? Robert