Managing Linux® Systems with Webmin™ System Administration and Module Development

16.3. Adding a Network Interface

There are two situations in which you might want to add a new network interface—if your system has just had a network card installed, or if you are adding an additional virtual IP address to an existing interface. In the latter case, the new virtual interface is not associated with its own separate network card, but instead adds an additional IP address to an existing Ethernet card. Virtual addresses are often used on systems hosting multiple websites, so that each site can have its own IP address.

Before an interface for a new network card can be configured, you must make sure that it is recognized by the Linux kernel and the appropriate kernel module loaded. There is no support in Webmin for doing this at the ...