Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 20:29:27 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: mitayai@dreaming.org (Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: *** HELP! ifconfig aliases!? *** Message-ID: <199512041929.UAA08979@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951204070808.18053A-100000@dreamlabs.dreaming.org> from "Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe" at Dec 4, 95 07:14:39 am
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As Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe wrote: > > ifconfig tun0 alias 198.96.119.1 netmask 0xffffffff > > and got: > > ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Destination address required > > so, after checking out the man page, i determined that it should be: > > ifconfig tun0 198.96.119.1 198.96.119.129 netmask 0xffffffff alias > > but that still gave me the error: > > ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists > > any ideas? Seems that you cannot alias a ``pointopoint'' interface. (Actually, i don't see how it should work: the local and the remote address of a pointopoint link must match the configuration of the remote peer -- how would you arrange this if one side has more than one address?) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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