multihomed host e.g muliple ips on same NIC

1-under

/etc/hosts

enter an entry as follows

192.168.10.10 myhost

2-under

/etc/netmasks

add an entry as follows

192.168.10.0 255.255.255.0

3-create a file point to your NIC for example

#touch /etc/hostname.e1000g0:1

add hostname for example

myhost

4-type the following command

#ifconfig e1000g0:1 plumb

5- assign ips

#ifconfig e1000g0:1 192.168.10.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 up