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Subject: Re: Adding Interface alias on the fly
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On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Jack L. Stone wrote:

> >
> >man ifconfig
> >
> >and look at the 'alias' flag.
>
> >			Fer
>
> Fer: Thanks, but I have read the ifconfig man pages and am familiar with
> *some* of its uses for adding/removing addresses, but, it is rather crytic
> to me and I am unsure about add another alias without it removing or
> replacing another alias (alias0 for instance) I want left in.
>

OK. that's what you need to do:

ifconfig  <ifname> alias <addr> netmask <mask>

and that's it.

in your case, if you want to add that alias (the alias0 from rc.conf) you
just say:

ifconfig rl1 alias 65.71.135.139 netmask 255.255.255.255

If you want to delete an alias you say

ifconfig  <ifname> delete <addr>

Hope this helps. You don't need to run netstart again.


			Fer




> Arie's answer just a fe minutes ago sounds like a good approach... do you
> agree with this which seems more exact for the configuration that would be
> loaded on a reboot - without rebooting of course which is the objective
> here... plus, not messing up:
>
> "....After adding the configuration on /etc/rc.conf, you can simply execute
> /etc/netstart and that will reload your network configuration..."
>
> Thanks, to Arie too....
>
> Best regards,
> Jack L. Stone,
> Administrator
>
> SageOne Net
> http://www.sage-one.net
> jackstone@sage-one.net
>




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