Need an eth0:1 temporarily, howto?

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 23 May 2010, Larry Brower wrote:
>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 ;)
>
It didn't appear that I had to, and thank you very much.

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