[PLUG] One ethernet port, two subnets

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2017, wes wrote:

> I never heard of any need to interact with /proc to do this. I simply add
> the IP address I wish to occupy on that subnet to the desired interface.

Wes,

   Than I must have mis-remembered.

> I can configure eth0 on my system with 2 IP addresses, for example
> 192.168.1.3 and 192.168.2.4, each with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0.

   This is what I want to do so I can access the router on on it's generic IP
address or the LAN IP address.

> If the above doesn't work for you, we may need to learn more about your
> setup. Given what you've mentioned previously on this topic, I'm going to
> guess that you're trying to arrange it such that you can talk to the
> Ubiquiti router both on its default subnet as well as the one the rest of
> your network uses, without having to re-number your interface every time
> you try to change something. This is exactly the sort of thing I used to do
> when I was playing with these devices a lot.

   Yep. That's it exactly. I'll give this a try.

Much appreciated,

Rich