From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 17 15:11:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA29081 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 May 1998 15:11:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from enterprise.woftam.com.au (enterprise.woftam.com.au [203.8.14.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA28821 for ; Sun, 17 May 1998 15:10:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kurt@woftam.com.au) Received: from enterprise ([203.8.14.98]) by enterprise.woftam.com.au (Post.Office MTA v3.1 release PO203a ID# 178-35856U100L100S0) with SMTP id AAA91 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 07:47:31 +1000 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980518074731.008fbc80@woftam.com.au> X-Sender: kurt@woftam.com.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 07:47:31 +1000 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Kurt Jones Subject: A couple of IP aliasing questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Everyone, When I set up an IP alias I enter the following: ifconfig ed1 inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.240 alias route add -host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 127.0.0.1 0 This seems to work OK but after the first line it reports: "ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists" What does this mean and do I need to worry about it? Also to automate this proceedure at startup, in which file should I make the IP aliasing entries? Thanks, Kurt ---------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Jones - WOFTAM Jones Pty Ltd Ph:+61 3 9735 5386 www.woftam.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message