From owner-freebsd-net Mon Jul 16 15: 6:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [216.33.66.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B67437B401 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:06:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1098) id D4B7A81D07; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 17:06:31 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 17:06:31 -0500 From: Bill Fumerola To: Peter Warrick Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Routing. :) Message-ID: <20010716170631.O2759@elvis.mu.org> References: <200107162141.PAA27335@mail.guest-tek.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200107162141.PAA27335@mail.guest-tek.com>; from peter@guest-tek.com on Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:44:40PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-FEARSOME-20010712 i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:44:40PM -0600, Peter Warrick wrote: > I hope I am not sending to the wrong address but here goes. :) you are. this should have been sent to freebsd-questions, but: from ifconfig(8): alias Establish an additional network address for this interface. This is sometimes useful when changing network numbers, and one wishes to accept packets addressed to the old interface. If the address is on the same subnet as the first network address for this in- terface, a netmask of 0xffffffff has to be specified. examples: # ifconfig fxp0 10.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 # ifconfig fxp0 10.1.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias # on the same subnet # ifconfig fxp0 10.1.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 alias # not on the same subnet -- Bill Fumerola - security yahoo / Yahoo! inc. - fumerola@yahoo-inc.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message