D'oh!

[Christopher Aitken]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 07:17:59AM -0500, chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org wrote:
>   
>> Okay, I tried that. That gave me the 'Network Settings' interface. The only 
>> 'Connection ' listed is 'Wired Connection (Address: dhcp)'. It won't let me 
>> make a brand-new connection - onl an alias. So, I created an alias 'devon1' 
>> with ip adress 191.168.0.9 but it still won't show up when I run 
>> /sbin/ifconfig. 
>>     
>
> Do you physically have another network port to add as a new connection?
>   
No.
> If not then all you can do is edit an existing entry, or add an alias to
> an existing interface.  
That's what I did. However, /sbin/config still does not show the new 
entry, and I can't ping it (locally or remotely).

Chris
> Software can't create physical ports out of thin
> air.
>
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