From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 22 8:58:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6210714C2A for ; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:58:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whiste.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA42322; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:55:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:55:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: Graham Wheeler , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: aliasing a point-to-point interface In-Reply-To: <19991021202957.C83927@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What exactly are you trrying to achieve..? I think I missed the mail that stated what the goal was.. On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 06:50:07PM +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote: > > Hi all > > > > Is it possible to assign an IP alias to a point to point interface (in my case, > > a sync PPP interface)? It doesn't seem to be possible, but perhaps I'm > > missing something... > > Yup, that's possible but is somewhat tricky: > > # ifconfig ptpN inet X.X.X.X X.X.X.X alias > # route delete -host X.X.X.X > # route add -host X.X.X.X -gateway 127.1 > # ping X.X.X.X > > > Cheers, > -- > Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the > ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, > ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, > +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine > > http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve > http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message