Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Dirk H. Schulz > <dirk.schulz at kinzesberg.de> wrote: > >> Okay, I found that ifconfig does not show the virtual IP address >> > > Are you sure? > > These are interface aliases, they should show up as a "different" > interface such as eth0:0 or eth0:1. If you run "ifconfig" without any > parameters, doesn't it show up? > with the IP stack in Linux as of kernel 2.4.something, and the 'ip' command, virtual addresses no longer need be associated with virtual interfaces like eth0:1, instead you can `ip addr add eth0 a.b.c.d` the ifconfig command, written back in the stone ages, is blissfully unaware of this. it really should be deprecated in favor of `ip addr`