RE: Dual IP Addresses...

From: William Moyer (wmoyer99@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: 06/30/02 

From: "William Moyer" <wmoyer99@tampabay.rr.com>
To: "Pearson, Andrew" <Andrew_Pearson@adc.com>, <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 19:26:17 -0400

Andrew,

Other than having 2+ interfaces and their associated "hostname.??#" files,
you can enable multiple IP addresses on a Solaris box as follows..

Create the primary IP address by creating the "hostname.??#" file (where ??
and # represent the interface name and number respectively)

Create the secondary IP addresses by creating a "hostname.??#:N" (where the
N represents the virtual IP address number (not IP).

Reboot the system. During boot up, the system will see the files and
configure the interfaces appropriately.

Note that the hostname.??# and hostname.??#N files are located in the /etc
directory and contain either the IP address or hostname of the interface.
If you are using a hostname, put a reference to it in the /etc/hosts file so
that the system can resolve it during boot time.

Hope this helps....

KR,

Bill Moyer

-----Original Message-----
From: Pearson, Andrew [mailto:Andrew_Pearson@adc.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 9:34 AM
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
Subject: Dual IP Addresses...

Hi,

Is it possible to give a Solaris UNIX Box 2 IP Addresses?

The reason for this question is that I have some software that will gather
data from 1 port on 1 IP address only. (The IP Address is used as the
Identifier) But I need it to gather Info from 2 ports... Therefore, If I
give the box 2 IP addresses, each one can be used to gather data from the
alternate ports.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sherrie E. Adams [mailto:webmaster@wzyp.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 04:59
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: don't deserve to be hacked?

I'm with you Jim. Thanks.
Sherrie

At 09:37 AM 6/24/02 -0400, you wrote:
>BINGO! "security-basics" list. If this was an advanced list, wouldn't
>say "basics". Newbies gotta start someplace!
>
>Jim
>
>Jim
>
>Peter Hamilton wrote:
>>
>> In a previous message Jay Woody [mailto:jay_woody@tnb.com] was rumoured
to
>> have said:
>>
>> >You guys trip me out. Go to Yahoo and put in
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>>
>> Hate to say it, but I'll take my pot shot, in the case of this list it is
>> generally the "simplest" things. But hey, it's the "basics" list so what
do
>> you expect...?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Peter
>
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