From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 4 13:50:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA12458 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 13:50:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mistery.mcafee.com (jimd@mistery.mcafee.com [192.187.128.69]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA12450 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 13:50:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jimd@localhost) by mistery.mcafee.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA00207; Fri, 4 Jun 2010 13:59:25 -0700 From: Jim Dennis Message-Id: <201006042059.NAA00207@mistery.mcafee.com> Subject: Re: ifconfig aliasing To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 110 13:59:25 -0700 (PDT) Cc: dneum@telelink.com, questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9605141519.AA10528@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at May 14, 96 11:19:09 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > < > > what is the exact syntax of the "alias" option to ifconfig? > > You put the word `alias' somewhere on the command line. It's not > fussy, and it doesn't care about the order (so long as the interface > name comes first). > > -GAWollman Garrett, I tried 'ifconfig ep0:1 alias 205.227.... netmask 255.255...' which the system accepted without error, and which seemed to add entries into my 'netstat -nr' output. However 'ifconfig -a' showed the same number of interfaces ep0, tun0, lp0, sl0, and lo0. Various other permutations of parameters like 'ifconfig ep0:1' didn't show the new address. The man page doesn't say anything about querying the status and information about aliases interfaces. How do I show this information? Which FM should I R? Jim Dennis, System Administrator, McAfee Associates