This is a discussion on ip aliases vs subnets on RH9 within the Linux Networking forums, part of the Linux Forums category; Did something change in the way IP aliases are handled in a recent RedHat 9 update? I've been running ...
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Did something change in the way IP aliases are handled in a recent
RedHat 9 update? I've been running a tftp server, syslog and a few other things on a secondary IP address (eth0:1) for a long time. The 2nd address is on the same subnet as the primary address and is just used to make it easier to move the service to different machines without changing DNS and updating firewall filters. Before a recent update it would accept connections coming across routers from other subnets as well as from the local subnet. Now the eth0 address continues to work normally but the eth0:1 address simply ignores packets that have been routed from another subnet. Tcpdump shows packets arriving, but xinetd waits in select() without noticing them. Even pings to the address are only seen if they originate on the local subnet. There are no ipchains/iptables firewalls involved and nothing in hosts.allow/hosts.deny. I'm not sure what changed in the last update but it's running kernel 2.4.20-24.9smp now. Is there some configuration change that will make the alias address work normally again? This looks right to me: [root@monitor root]# ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:C9:FB:57:A4 inet addr:10.207.192.11 Bcast:10.207.195.255 Mask:255.255.252.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:23822915 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:29635633 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:21 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:458576344 (437.3 Mb) TX bytes:3543599948 (3379.4 Mb) Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1060 Memory:fa104000-fa104038 eth0:1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:C9:FB:57:A4 inet addr:10.207.192.50 Bcast:10.207.195.255 Mask:255.255.252.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:23822915 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:29635633 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:21 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:458576344 (437.3 Mb) TX bytes:3543599948 (3379.4 Mb) Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1060 Memory:fa104000-fa104038 ---- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@comcast.net |