[mythtv-users] convoluted questiom

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Barry,

Tuesday, December 28, 2021, 3:43:33 PM, you wrote:




> James:
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> This does mean that to upgrade I have to temporarily 
> reboot the server onto a different subnet to do any upgrades, etc.
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> On a Linux system you can add a second IP address to a device to    access a second network:
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> Second/Alternate           IP address – two network address:  
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> sudo ip addr add         192.168.0.199/24 broadcast 192.168.0.199 dev enp1s0

The broadcast address is always the highest address in the subnet, so
in this case 192.168.0.255
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>  Temporarily         (clears         at boot) adds this address to
> current device. Allows connecting         to         different LAN.
> (so  192.168.4.22 and 192.168.0.199.)
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> "enp1s0" is my       ethernet port per ifconfig.  I am not certain
> of the '24'; may       need a smaller number -- I sort of know what
> it's for but not       enough to start to explain.  *.*.4.* is the
> original network here;       *.*.0.* the alternate.  
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> (And I thought I       was bowing out of this thread! <g>)
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> Barry-
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