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Date:      Mon, 13 Nov 1995 16:20:46 -0800 (PST)
From:      bmk@dtr.com
To:        paul@trumpet.net.au (Paul Reece)
Cc:        shorty@iii.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How do I setup IP aliases?
Message-ID:  <199511140020.QAA07562@dtr.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951114105929.17621A-100000@jazz> from "Paul Reece" at Nov 14, 95 11:00:23 am

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> On Mon, 13 Nov 1995, Justin Seger wrote:

> > I want to setup multiple IP addresses for one ethernet card, specifically:
> > 199.232.47.49, 199.232.47.52, 199.232.47.53, 199.232.47.54
> > 
> > My default is to ifconfig le0 to 199.232.47.49.  I tried doing this:
> > ifconfig le0 alias 199.232.47.52 then setting up an arp entry:
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > arp -s 199.232.47.52 ethernetaddress pub
> > 
> > I then try to ping 199.232.47.52 and get no response.  Could someone tell me
> > what I'm doing wrong?  Thanks in advance.
> > -Justin Seger-

> do a man ifconfig

> the command is:

> ifconfig <interface> alias <ip address>

It appears to me that that is what he's doing.   One step that's missing
is that he will need to use a netmask of 0xffffffff on the aliases if
they are on the same subnet.




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