Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 07:14:39 -0500 (EST) From: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <mitayai@dreaming.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: *** HELP! ifconfig aliases!? *** Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951204070808.18053A-100000@dreamlabs.dreaming.org> In-Reply-To: <199512040721.IAA09236@allegro.lemis.de>
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On Mon, 4 Dec 1995, Greg Lehey wrote:
> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 08:21:52 +0100 (MET)
> From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>
> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Subject: Re: *** HELP! ifconfig aliases!? ***
>
> J Wunsch writes:
> >
> > As Ollivier Robert wrote:
> > >
> > > It seems that Robert Shady said:
> > > > sites on it. Doing the standard "ifconfig ed0 alias a.b.c.d" didn't
> > > > work, and neither did "ifconfig ed0 alias a.b.c.d netmask 255.255.255.0"
> > >
> > > Use netmask 0xffffffff for aliases.
> >
> > ...but only if they are in the same (sub)net as the primary address.
>
> OK, I'll bite: why? I thought aliases were just an alternative
> address, and that they were subject to the same constraints as the
> primary address.
>
> Greg
>
Hmm... i tried this myself in order to play with the multi-domain aspect
of apache as:
ifconfig tun0 alias 198.96.119.1 netmask 0xffffffff
and got:
ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Destination address required
so, after checking out the man page, i determined that it should be:
ifconfig tun0 198.96.119.1 198.96.119.129 netmask 0xffffffff alias
but that still gave me the error:
ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists
any ideas?
-Mit
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Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe, mitayai@dreaming.org
http://www.dreaming.org/~mitayai
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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