From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 15 09:16:07 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA18282 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 09:16:07 -0700 Received: from Glock.COM (root@glock.com [198.82.228.165]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA18266 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 09:16:01 -0700 Received: (from mmead@localhost) by Glock.COM (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA07761; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 12:15:51 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 12:15:51 -0400 From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199509151615.MAA07761@Glock.COM> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: more ifconfig alias problems... Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I'm doing the following to add a second address to my FreeBSD 2.0.5R production environment machine: root@Glock % nslookup neon Server: localhost.COM Address: 127.0.0.1 Name: neon.Glock.COM Address: 198.82.228.159 root@Glock % ifconfig ed0 neon alias netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists root@Glock % telnet neon Trying 198.82.228.159... ^C root@Glock % ifconfig ed0 delete neon root@Glock % ifconfig ed0 alias neon netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists root@Glock % telnet neon Trying 198.82.228.159... ^C root@Glock % ifconfig ed0 delete neon root@Glock % Any ideas what I'm doing wrong, or do I need to upgrade? -matt -- Matthew C. Mead mmead@Glock.COM | Network Administration and Software Development http://www.Glock.COM/~mmead/ | Consulting: BizNet Technologies -> mmead@bnt.com