From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 26 20:59:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50E391541A for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 20:59:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA85165; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 23:59:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA23632; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 23:59:48 -0500 (EST) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: bob@home.windsong.net (Bob) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question regarding IP's Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 04:58:24 GMT Message-ID: <388fd028.84685891@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 26 Jan 2000 14:11:01 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Is there any good way to assign multiple IP's to a FreeBSD 3.x box? ifconfig lo0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias The key being the alias at the end. You can alias your ethernet card as well, but depending on what you want to do, using the loopback interface can be more network friendly... specifically, cutting down on the number of ARP entries. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message