What's eth0:9? (Re: WiFi with mandrake

[josephc at etards.net (josephc at etards.net)]

eth0:9 is a sub interface of eth0

the 169 address is what an interface is assigned until it successfully 
polls a DHCP server for an address.

sub interfaces are only dependent on their parent in that the parent 
interface must be enabled/up. It doesn't matter if it has an IP or not.

-joe 

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Duane Morin wrote:

> I've also noticed that after bootup I've got an "eth0:9" listing in my 
> ifconfig output.  What is that?  eth0 does not have an IP associated with 
> it, but this eth0:9 thing has a "169.254.41.250" address which is unknown 
> to me since I'm on the usual 192.168.x.x.
> 
> Duane
> 
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