From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Aug 30 09:39:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA03573 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 09:39:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adsight.com (adsight.com [207.86.2.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA03567 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 09:39:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from webadmin@localhost) by adsight.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id MAA00446; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 12:35:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 12:35:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Sam Magee To: Frode Nordahl cc: "isp@FreeBSD.Org" Subject: Re: IP aliassing. In-Reply-To: <199608301600.SAA17754@login.bigblue.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.Org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Frode Nordahl wrote: > I have made IP aliassing work by executing the following command: > ifconfig ep0 xxx.yyy.zzz alias > > And then add a route for that ip to localhost, but, when I add that alias, ifconfig comes up with a "File exists" error, > but the alias work, so I just wonder if it is the right way of doing things? > --------------------------------- > Frode Nordahl > > This started happening to me yesterday, after I upgraded from 2.1R to 2.1.5R -- before that, the same alias commands worked without complaint. Obviously some version difference here. Anybody know if these warnings can be ignored? Sam Magee