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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

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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




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