[Bridge] Is it possible to put an aliased ethernet card on a bridge?

[Brad Dameron]

On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 16:32 -0400, Dimitry Golubovsky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Suppose we have two aliases of the same ethernet card:
> 
> ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1
> ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.1.1
> 
> Is it possible to add eth0:1 to a bridge, not adding its "physical parent" eth0?
> 
> Sorry if this was answered before.
> 
> Thanks.
> 


Yes this is allowed. Along with eth0.10:1 which is a VLAN tagged
interface with an alias.

Brad Dameron
Systems Engineer
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