From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 27 10:03:00 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id KAA27288 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 10:03:00 -0700 Received: from mail.htp.com (mail.htp.com [199.171.4.2]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA27282 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 10:02:58 -0700 Received: from et.htp.com (et.htp.com [199.171.4.228]) by mail.htp.com (8.6.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id NAA19486; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 13:03:06 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 13:03:06 -0400 Message-Id: <199508271703.NAA19486@mail.htp.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.htp.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: John Capo From: dennis@et.htp.com (dennis) Subject: Re: alias ( secondary IP ) for Ethernet Ifaces in FreeBSD Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk John Capo writes.. >> >> For example , I have ep0 iface and I want to assign the >> >> secondary( alias) IP address to it . >> >> What command should be issued ? >> >> >> >> ifconfig ep0 alias 199.199.199.22 >> > >> >> I've read several messages in this thread and can't get it to work. >> SOMETHING shows up with netstat -in but I can't ping it. I've tried >> >> >> ifconfig ed0 204.141.95.2 alias (This takes but doesn't work) >> >> and >> >> ifconfig ed0 alias 204.141.95.2 (I get "File Exists" here) >> > >Try ifconfig ed0 alias 204.141.95.2 netmask 0xffffffff > This still doesn't work. When I do it, I can ping the primary address but not the secondary. If I try to ping the secondary address the machine sends an ARP. What should the route look like (in netstat/ifconfig) if it works? db