Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:14:53 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: pcollins@ocsny.com (Pete Collins) Cc: jwg@netbox.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ifconfig Message-ID: <199901272014.OAA08180@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <36AF2630.C938A510@ocsny.com> from Pete Collins at "Jan 27, 99 02:44:00 pm"
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In a previous message, Pete Collins said:
> thanks guys
>
> will try now
>
> ifconfig vx0 inet 000.000.00.00 netmask 0xffffffc0 up
>
> however i dont need to specify alias22 ??
Yep. Look in /etc/rc.network and you see what happens:
alias=0
while :
do
eval ifconfig_args=\$ifconfig_${ifn}_alias${alias}
if [ -n "${ifconfig_args}" ]; then
ifconfig ${ifn} ${ifconfig_args} alias
alias=`expr ${alias} + 1`
else
break;
fi
done
You'll see that the variable $alias is never actually used, currently.
${ifn} is vx0
$alias is 22 for this example, but isn't used.
> pete
>
> > If your asking how to add an alias w/out rebooting, I think it's:
> >
> > ifconfig vx0 inet 000.000.00.00 netmask 0xffffffc0 up
As I said before, I screwed up here. "up" should be "alias"
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