From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 17 06:05:03 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA02561 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 May 1995 06:05:03 -0700 Received: from isl.cf.ac.uk (isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk [131.251.22.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA02545 for ; Wed, 17 May 1995 06:04:38 -0700 Received: (from paul@localhost) by isl.cf.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id OAA07193; Wed, 17 May 1995 14:00:52 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199505171300.OAA07193@isl.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: alias ( secondary IP ) for Ethernet Ifaces in FreeBSD To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 14:00:52 +0100 (BST) Cc: erich@rrnet.com, rashid@haven.ios.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199505161914.MAA08933@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at May 16, 95 12:14:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 869 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Rodney W. Grimes who said > > > > Can the alias appear on the same command as the ifconfig that brings > the interface up? If so the place to do this is /etc/sysconfig, > ifconfig_ep0="blah blah". > > If not I'll have to enhance the current handling of ifconfig in > /etc/netstart and /etc/sysconfig to deal with it. Wait until after 2.0.5, I'm going to need this functionality for work (setting up a web site that supports virtual domains) and after playing around with it I think ifconfig needs to be changed to handle it a lot better. The current implementation isn't robust enough. A new version of ifconfig would mean your current /etc files would work. -- Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.isl.cf.ac.uk/ Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home)