From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 6 00:38:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA22457 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 May 1997 00:38:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA22451 for ; Tue, 6 May 1997 00:38:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id KAA02398; Tue, 6 May 1997 10:36:20 +0300 (IDT) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma002395; Tue May 6 10:36:05 1997 Message-ID: <336EDFAD.7D52@barcode.co.il> Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 10:37:17 +0300 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Zborovski CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiple Ip's on one Ethernet References: <336E1393.6708@moonlighting.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Daniel Zborovski wrote: > > When I enter the command to get more than one IP on my ethernet card : > ifconfig ed1 alias 207.107.140.243 netmask 255.255.255.224 > > It comes back with the message: > ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File Exists > > But I still can't ping 207.107.140.243 > > Thanks alot in advance > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > |Daniel Zborovski | daniel@moonlighting.net | > |Network Administartor | | > |Moonlighting Web Management | http://www.moonlighting.net | > ------------------------------------------------------------ If it's on the same network asthe primary address, use a netmask of all 1's (i.e. 255.255.255.255). If not, you'll have to modify the routing table too. Look in the archives. There have been countless discussions of this issue here. Nadav