Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 19:29:14 +0200 From: Colin Alston <karnaugh@karnaugh.za.net> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating multiple IPs Message-ID: <404615EA.1090305@karnaugh.za.net> In-Reply-To: <20040303171223.GC22435@ip.net.ua> References: <404605DC.4030809@openstandards.net> <20040303172617.B47509@juergen.edv-winter.de> <40460A67.8070601@openstandards.net> <20040303171223.GC22435@ip.net.ua>
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Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:40:07AM -0500, Erik Sliman wrote: >[...] > > >>Thank you. That worked. I read all the documentation I could find, which >>was very little. Basic networking requirements like this should be in >>the FreeBSD Manual. rc.conf man pages gave no examples, and differed >>from one version to another quite a bit. >> >> >> >This is not true. Search for the first word "alias" in the rc.conf(5) >manpage. > > >Cheers, > > The hint here being the netmask, about which the documentation is a little vague on the reasoning IMHO, which seems to trip up alot of people. Other operating systems cater for aliases with a bit more automata from what I've seen, not that this is a good thing.
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