Howdy. I'm interested in learning to use Apache. One thing my company will have to do is host multiple sites on one box - thus, we'll need to use several different IP addresses, all bound to eth0. I've spent a pretty good amount of time reading about this, it appears to be something called "IP aliasing" (there's even a HOW-TO on it). THe basic idea is, at boot time after eth0 is setup, you "create" virtual NICs kind like this: eth0 eth0:0 eth0:1 eth0:2 and so on. The problem is, this completely freaks SuSE out, flooding the console with error messages - all due to the way the init scripts are in SuSE (at least that's how it seems to me). I'd love to just put "ifconfig eth0:0 1982.16.0.2" in /etc/rc.d/init.d/boot.local, but that HAS to be done after eth0 is config'd, unfortunately boot.local is read _before_ then. There's absolutely no way, that I can see, to force YaST to do this (which makes me kind of angry - all you get it a selection list "eth0 eth1 eth2 eth3 eth4" I tried editing rc.config and several other files by hand, but non of it worked. I _know_ SuSE can handle this, because if I don't put anything in any conf files or init scripts except the regular eth0, I can then make (as root of course) as many of these virtual NICs as I like with ifconfig and route. Which leads me to think there _has_ to be a way to do it all automatically at boot time. So is there anything like boot.local that's run later on in the boot process? Or is there something I've missed about how to fit this into YaST? Any help would be appreciated, especially from someone who's actually done this. It's kind of a sad deal - this is the first real problem I've ever had with SuSE - I'd sure hate to change distros of this one sad detail. Thanks in advance, JW P.S. if you want me to clarify something please don't hesitate to ask. I got all my ideas for this from an Apachetoday article:(http://apachetoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-07-17-001-01-PS) and the IP-ALIAS HOW-TO:(http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/IP-Alias.html) -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq