From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 16 00:57:32 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA02137 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 May 1995 00:57:32 -0700 Received: from mercury.unt.edu (mercury.unt.edu [129.120.1.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA02079 for ; Tue, 16 May 1995 00:55:34 -0700 Received: from gab.unt.edu by mercury.unt.edu with SMTP id AA10243 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Tue, 16 May 1995 02:54:17 -0500 Received: from GAB/MAILQUEUE by gab.unt.edu (Mercury 1.13); Tue, 16 May 95 2:54:17 CST6CDT Received: from MAILQUEUE by GAB (Mercury 1.13); Tue, 16 May 95 2:54:09 CST6CDT From: "John Booth" Organization: University of North Texas To: rashid@haven.ios.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 02:54:02 CST6CDT Subject: Re: alias ( secondary IP ) for Ethernet Ifaces in FreeBSD Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Message-Id: <3B1EC4248C2@gab.unt.edu> Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 That should do it, I've got 20 aliases on a 3-22 Snap. Thing is after a few it give the following for each aditional aliases. ifconfig ioctl (SIOCAIOCTL) : file exists The alises seem to work ok (all of them), but I find that messages disconcerting. It is using the ep0 interface btw. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- College of Arts & Sciences Computing Services John A. Booth, john@gab.unt.edu