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  From: Richard Russell <richard@yellowgoanna.com>
  To  : Robyn Manning <rmanning@rebel.net.au>
  Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 06:55:03 +1030

Re: Adding multiple IPs to one NIC

On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:02:57PM +1030, Robyn Manning wrote:
> Hi Michael
> 
> Your lucky day. I was stuck on the same problem for a couple of days. The 
> answer is as follows you need to select 'Y' to include in the kernel 

Hmmm...

It would appear that what is being done here is different somehow to
what I proposed... how so? What is the difference here?

TIA

rr

> 
> Kernel/User netlink socket
> Routing messages
> Netlink device emulation
> 
> Robyn
> 
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 14:08, Michael T. Cheshire wrote:
> > I wonder if anyone can help me here.
> >
> > I type
> >
> > # ip address add xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx dev eth1
> >
> > and get the following :
> >
> > Cannot open netlink socket: Address family not supported by protocol
> >
> > I am reasonably confident this is due to my current kernel ( I have
> > forgotten to include somethig in the complile ), does anyone know which
> > option it is that I have missed?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Michael Cheshire
> > Network Engineer
> > Microarts Pty Ltd
> > mailto:michael.cheshire@microarts.com.au
> > <mailto:michael.cheshire@microarts.com.au>
> > http://www.microarts.com.au <http://www.microarts.com.au/>;
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