Need an eth0:1 temporarily, howto?

[Larry Brower]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> CRS is catching up with me I believe.
> 
> What is the invocation of ifconfig that will bring me up a working eth0:1 at 
> an address of 192.168.1.3?
> 
> One that will let me ping dd-wrt at its std 192.168.1.1 address on a 
> different 192.168.xx.xx subnet from the regular eth0 .
> 
> I've apparently nuked my dd-wrt install on an x86 box, and I need to talk to 
> it via the eth0:1 address long enough to configure it to work with a *&%$# 
> cable modem that marries itself to the first MAC address it see's.
> 
> Thanks folks.
> 

ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 up


Don't forget to also add a route ;)