Setting up IP Aliasing on A Linux Machine Mini-HOWTO

Harish Pillay

h.pillay@ieee.org

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2025-01-23

Revision History
Revision 1.2	2025-01-26	Revised by: JEY

Revision 1.1	2025-01-24	Revised by: JEY

Revision 1.0	2025-01-13	Revised by: HP

This is a cookbook recipe on how to set up and run IP aliasing on a Linux box and how to set up the machine to receive e-mail on the aliased IP addresses.

Table of Contents

1. My Setup

2. Commands

3. Troubleshooting: Questions and Answers

3.1. Question: How can I keep the settings through a reboot?
3.2. Question: How do I set up the IP aliased machine to receive e-mail on the various aliased IP addresses (on a machine using sendmail)?

4. Acknowledgements