> SA> I'm running kernel 2.2.5 on caldera openlinux. I have ip-aliases enabled
> SA> and 1 alias (eth0:1) set up, which has worked fine.
> SA> I also run ucd-snmp to retrieve traffic info for eth0 and eth0:1 (trying)
> SA> I, however, cannot pull traffic info (packets/octets/etc) for an aliased
> SA> interface.
>
> Aliases are not interfaces any morem they are just alternate addresses
> for the same interface. All the accounting is done for real interfaces.
> All the packets/octets/etc go through eth0 on the interface level.
>
then why does ifconfig (and /proc/net/dev) not show the total RX and TX
packets for eth0 and eth0:1, put together?
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