From owner-freebsd-isp Wed May 1 10:39:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA03639 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 1 May 1996 10:39:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from synwork.com (root@synwork.com [199.3.234.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA03630 for ; Wed, 1 May 1996 10:39:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from flaq@localhost) by synwork.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA16939; Wed, 1 May 1996 12:40:21 -0500 Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 12:40:20 -0500 (CDT) From: "Mike K." To: John Hart cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Problem with ifconfig for a virtual machine In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >