From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 06:10:04 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id GAA27979 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 06:10:04 -0700 Received: from elbereth.blueberry.co.uk (surfs-up.demon.co.uk [158.152.128.94]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA27967 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 06:09:59 -0700 Received: (from nik@localhost) by elbereth.blueberry.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA00285 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 11:42:46 GMT From: Nik Clayton Message-Id: <199508031142.LAA00285@elbereth.blueberry.co.uk> Subject: ifconfig alias and a 3C509 Combo b To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 11:42:46 +0000 () X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 913 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk How do, I'm trying to use ``ifconfig'' to add a second IP address to one of my interfaces. ep0 is a 3C509 Combo (revision b) board, that normally has the IP address x.y.z.50 assigned to it. It's temporarily taking over the duties of a mailhost, so I'm aliasing the mailhosts IP address (x.y.z.10) to it. # ifconfig ep0 inet x.y.z.10 alias Seems to do this. But it spits out the error ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists The alias seems to work, as Macs around the network can still pick up their mail at the .10 address. But I'm a little concerned about the error. N -- --+=[ Nik Clayton System Administration, Blueberry Design Ltd, ]=+-- --+=[ nik@blueberry.co.uk 1/9 Chelsea Harbour Design Centre ]=+-- --+=[ root@blueberry.co.uk London, SW10 0XE. Tel: 0171 351 3313 ]=+-- "It's two o'clock in the morning. . . do you know where your stack pointer is?"