Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 12:12:24 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Jim Dennis <jimd@mistery.mcafee.com> Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig aliasing Message-ID: <9606051612.AA07808@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <201006042059.NAA00207@mistery.mcafee.com> References: <9605141519.AA10528@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <201006042059.NAA00207@mistery.mcafee.com>
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<<On Fri, 4 Jun 110 13:59:25 -0700 (PDT), Jim Dennis <jimd@mistery.mcafee.com> said:
> 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.
This is probably a bug; it should not have accepted `ep0:1'. What on
earth made you decide to write that?
> 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.
Ummm...
root@khavrinen(2)# ifconfig ed0 alias 10.1.1.1 netmask 0xffffffff
root@khavrinen(3)# ifconfig -a
ed0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 18.26.0.162 netmask 0xfffff000 broadcast 18.26.0.0
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
inet 10.1.1.1 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 10.1.1.1
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ether 00:00:c0:be:a8:75
lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
ds0: flags=8008<LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 65532
-GAWollman
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