From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 4 2: 1:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from spade.pacific.net.sg (spade.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A72DC37B401 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 02:01:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nchee_hoong@pacific.net.sg) Received: from pop1.pacific.net.sg (pop1.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.85]) by spade.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id f6491Mm29463 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 17:01:22 +0800 (SGT) Received: from pacific.net.sg ([203.208.143.50]) by pop1.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id RAA04382 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 17:01:22 +0800 (SGT) Message-ID: <3B42DCB4.D09C9B2A@pacific.net.sg> Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 17:07:00 +0800 From: Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: zh-TW,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Ethernet alias Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi ; I have read man ifconfig but not understand the definition the use of "alias" . Can somebody explain to me in simple definition , gives example on how to use ethernet alias ? When I type netstat -r , my routing table shows me like this ..... nternet: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire default 192.168.100.5 UGSc 2 91955 xl0 localhost localhost UH 0 0 lo0 192.168.100/30 link#2 UC 0 0 xl1 => 192.168.100.4/30 link#1 UC 0 0 xl0 => 192.168.1.0/24 link#3 UC 0 0 rl0 => 172.16.100.0/24 192.168.100.1 UGSc 0 668 xl1 In the Gateway column , is there a way to rename link#2 , link#1, link#3 to either IP address or other name ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message