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From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@iafrica.com>
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Subject: Re: Ifconfig & 2nd IP address - weird...
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On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Khetan Gajjar wrote:
> I simply add to rc.local
> route add ip.add.re.ss -interface lo0
> 
> Is there something inherently wrong in that ?

No, but you also need to manually add an arp entry when the alias
is added to lo0 instead of an enet interface.

Dan
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