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Originally Posted by Ovidiu

my system didn't know about the second IP :-( is there a how-to for this? I guess I need to edit the interfaces file, the closest I just could find via google is this: http://shibuvarkala.blogspot.com/200...ddress-or.html

That should work. Make sure you indent as follows:

auto eth0:1
iface eth0:1 inet static
  address 192.168.0.50
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  network x.x.x.x
  broadcast x.x.x.x
  gateway x.x.x.x