Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 13:24:11 -0400 (EDT) From: John Capo <jc@irbs.com> To: dennis@et.htp.com (dennis) Cc: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: alias ( secondary IP ) for Ethernet Ifaces in FreeBSD Message-ID: <199508251724.NAA07044@irbs.irbs.com> In-Reply-To: <199508251611.MAA29425@mail.htp.com> from "dennis" at Aug 25, 95 12:11:42 pm
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
dennis writes: > > >In reply to Rashid Karimov. who said > >> > >> Hi there folx, > >> > >> Is it working ? > >> If yes - how can one set it up ? What's the correct format for > >> the command ? Should it be reflected somehow in ifconfig output > >> or netstat ? > > > >Co-incidentally I've spent the last few days playing with this and > >after talking with Garret, who explained a few problems I was > >seeing, my conclusion is that it works but it needs some time spent > >on it to make it more useable. A netstat -i will show up the alias > >but I plan to look at revamping ifconfig to be more alias friendly > >after 2.0.5 goes out. > > > >> > >> For example , I have ep0 iface and I want to assign the > >> secondary( alias) IP address to it . > >> What command should be issued ? > >> > >> ifconfig ep0 alias 199.199.199.22 > > > > I've read several messages in this thread and can't get it to work. > SOMETHING shows up with netstat -in but I can't ping it. I've tried > > > ifconfig ed0 204.141.95.2 alias (This takes but doesn't work) > > and > > ifconfig ed0 alias 204.141.95.2 (I get "File Exists" here) > Try ifconfig ed0 alias 204.141.95.2 netmask 0xffffffff John Capo IRBS Engineering
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199508251724.NAA07044>