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How to create a range of ip addresses on ethx

Create a range file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

Example:

Insert the following

Which would start at eth0:1

How to enable IP forwarding

To enable IP packet forwarding please edit /etc/sysctl.conf with your editor of choice and set:

#Controls IP packet forwarding

You can then verify your settings with:

Removing Reseller’s Access to Server’s Shared IP in DirectAdmin

As an Admin, you can give Resellers the ability to create User web sites using the Server’s Shared (main) IP address. At this time, you cannot remove this ability through the control panel.

To solve the problem manually, remove the desired IP address from the ip.list file in the Reseller’s DirectAdmin config directory

Reseller’s DirectAdmin config directory

This change will not affect the Reseller’s current Users (if they are using the server’s main IP, they will continue to do so.

Source & credit - http://www.directadmin.com

Adding reverse IP Lookup in DirectAdmin

Any modern verion of DA will be able to do this through the interface.

Go to: Admin Level -> DNS Administration

Scroll to the bottom to the “Add Zone” section.

Enter your information normally:

where server.hostname.com is the hostname of your server. The IP is your server IP (license IP)
and ns1/ns2 can be any NS your server uses.

Click the “Create Reverse IP Lookup” checkbox, then click “Add”.

Reference link: http://directadmin.com

The first step is to nofify direct admin regarind this change.

Boot the machine with the new IP address, chage the IP address in the system network setting and not in DirectAdmin.

Now get the new Licence.

Replace 1234 with your client ID number, and replace 56789 with your license ID number.

Start DirectAdmin with the new license:

Run the ipswap.sh script to replace the old server IP (1.2.3.4) with the new server IP (4.3.2.1)

Restart everything: