2008/9/15 Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>: >> Could anybody advice on the following problem. >> I need to assign several ip-addresses to 'lo' interface (beside >> 127.0.0.1). It is convenient to me to implement NAT with such >> addresses. >> I can easily assign these addresses on running system with 'ip address >> add <some addr/prefix> dev lo'. Yet I cannot understand how to make >> these settings apply on boot time. Certainly it is possible to patch >> standard system scripts like /etc/rc.d/init.d/network, but I suppose >> there must be more straight way to do this. > > This is well enough explained in > /usr/share/doc/initscripts-8.45.19.EL/sysconfig.txt > > In /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts you need to create a file: ifcfg-l0:1 > where all you really need is the ipaddr and netmask values. This works fine for 'eth' and does not work for 'lo'. -- Dmitry Cherkasov