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Subject: RE: Documentation Error?
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owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/confi
> gtuning-v irtual-hosts.html
> 
> 
> 
> states that adding a virtual address is done in rc.conf like this:
> 
> ifconfig_fxp0="inet 10.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0"
> ifconfig_fxp0_alias0="inet 10.1.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.255"
> 
> Shouldn't it be this instead?
> 
> ifconfig_fxp0="inet 10.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0"
> ifconfig_fxp0_alias0="alias 10.1.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.255"
> 
> 

No.  The actual command to make one is:

ifconfig fxp0 inet 10.1.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias

So you do need to pass the "inet" to ifconfig.  The _alias0 makes
the script pass the trailing "alias"

Ted