Hi,

> I'm trying to troubleshoot a network, and ifconfig gave me a response
> I've never seen:
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:03:34:6C:B4
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:34648 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:0
> TX packets:21424 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> RX bytes:3085669 (2.9 Mb) TX bytes:3113240 (2.9 Mb)
> Interrupt:10 Base address:0xec00
>
> eth0:1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:03:34:6C:B4
> inet addr:192.168.238.60 Bcast:192.168.238.255
>
>
> 1) What does eth0:1 mean? Could it be ip aliasing? I'm running RH9 - a
> stock kernel I believe, which I don't think has ip aliasing support
> because its deprecated, but I'm not sure.

I think I've seen this in context of VLAN or bridge devices.
But maybe I'm mistaken...

Regards,
Andreas

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