FYI: I've read everything on Serverfault related to this question and have faced a different issue.

Simply put, I've got one server (apache2) with couple of sites on it. It currently has 1 ip. I'm trying to assign/add another ip to that server, so I can give each site a different ip for ssl purposes.

I am not lucking out. The new ip simply is unreachable, I've pinged it. This is what I've got below, what am I doing wrong.

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0 eth0:0 eth0:1

iface eth0 inet static
address 70.116.5.244
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 70.116.5.1

#THE NEW IP
iface eth0:0 inet static
address 26.175.217.102
netmask 255.255.255.0

#PRIVATE IP
iface eth0:1 inet static
address 192.168.158.88
netmask 255.255.128.0

NOTE: THESE IP'S ARE TWEAKED BUT RELATIVE

I've read many questions here 90% similar to this but most actually have the IP respond, not this case. Thanks

netstar -r output

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
default         gw-u6.linode.co 0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 eth0
70.116.5.0      *               255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth0
26.175.217.0    *               255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth0
192.168.128.0   *               255.255.128.0   U         0 0          0 eth0