Re: Adding interfaces

[Darren Cook <darrenj@example.com>]

> > changed "eth0" to "eth0:0" and "eth0:1" [1]. I did "ifup -a", and
> > ssh,ftp, etc. to either address now work, but I've not tried rebooting
> 
> no, your main interface stays eth0, your secondary is eth0:0, your third
> is eth0:1.

Thanks for the answer. What is the reason for this; and why does my
mis-config work? If I reboot would something fail? (just trying to
understand unix networking a bit better).

Darren