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Date:      Wed, 18 Dec 1996 11:30:13 -0800 (PST)
From:      Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET>
To:        Darius Moos <moos@degnet.baynet.de>
Cc:        Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: two ip's for one ne0 interface
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.961218112727.3152A-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19961218130435.006b80cc@cyclone.degnet.baynet.de>

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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?

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




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