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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 09:53:33 +0200
From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
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To: Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET>
CC: Darius Moos <moos@degnet.baynet.de>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: two ip's for one ne0 interface
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Vincent Poy wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Darius Moos wrote:
> 
> > In FreeBSD-2.1.5 there is a special mechanism for doing this.
> 
>         Never knew about that one...
> 
> > Howto:
> > In /etc/sysconfig:
> >   Set your network-devices but don't specify any arguments for them.
> >   In your case:
> >   ...
> >   network_interfaces="ne0 lo0"
> >   # no ifconfig_ne0- or ifconfig_lo0-options here
> > Then create files /etc/start_if.ne0 and /etc/start_if.lo0
> > In /etc/start_if.ne0:
> >    /sbin/ifconfig ne0 inet 206.171.98.29 netmask 0xffffff00
> >    /sbin/ifconfig ne0 inet 206.171.98.1 netmask 0xffffffff alias
> >    # more aliases if desired.
> > In /etc/start_if.lo0:
> >    /sbin/ifconfig lo0 inet 127.0.0.1
> >
> > Reboot.
> > That's it
> 
>         Sounds simple enough.   Does ifconfig automatically do routing for
> 206.171.98.x to all use the ne0 interface?

If you use the netmask of all 1s all the routing stuff will be set up
automaticaly.

> 
> Vince
> GaiaNet Corporation - Unix Networking Operations
> vince@GAIANET.NET - http://www.GAIANET.NET
> Beverly Hills, California USA 90210
Nadav