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From: Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>
To: "Jason A. Ramsey" <jason@l337hosting.com>
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Subject: Re: ip addr add
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On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 04:50:15PM -0700, Jason A. Ramsey wrote:
> I'm working with a RH7.3 box that has iproute2 installed. I am trying to
> configure a slew of virtual interfaces on the server to accommodate
> ip-based virtual hosting with Apache. I was led to believe that it was
> possible to provision a group of addresses with a single command that
> would cause the host to listen on all those addresses. I would like to
> configure addresses 172.20.0.128-172.20.0.254 on the box without having
> to manually specify every address. Is this possible? Thanks.

If you don't mind adding also IP 172.20.0.255, so that you can use a
netmask 255.255.255.128, you can use the following:

ip route add local 172.20.0.128/25 dev eth0

(replacing "eth0" with your network interface, of course).

-- 
Juan Cespedes
http://www.cespedes.org/