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

Stephen Hemminger shemminger at linux-foundation.org
Wed Jun 13 14:28:54 PDT 2007


On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:32:09 -0400
"Dimitry Golubovsky" <golubovsky at gmail.com> 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.
> 

You can do it, you won't get anything usable.
What are you trying to. Simple bridging is at level 2 not level 3 (IP).


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