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Date:      Wed, 1 May 1996 12:40:20 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Mike K." <flaq@synwork.com>
To:        John Hart <dashadow@tchnet.tchnet.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Problem with ifconfig for a virtual machine
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960501123939.16929A-100000@synwork.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960501115919.714A-100000@tchnet.tchnet.com>

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Here's what I use:

ifconfig ed0 204.120.255.19 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias 

This seems to work fine for me.

Mike


On Wed, 1 May 1996, John Hart wrote:

> Ok, I have been trying over and over to get this to work, and I actually 
> had it working, but then I realized that the main ip address was gone.  
> Now, what I have is a start_if.ed1 file in /etc that reads:
> 
> ifconfig ed1 alias 198.109.196.252 netmask 255.255.255.0
> 
> I also have had the netmask at 0xffffffff, and it worked from the outside 
> world, but not from the machine it is aliased to.
> 
> Anyone know which netmask I should use?  I was told both of the above by 
> two seperate people.
> 
> John
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> John Hart, System Administrator                       Technet Internet Services
> dashadow@tchnet.com                                               (517)796-8200
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 



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