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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Jim Dennis <jimd@mistery.mcafee.com>
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Subject: Re: ifconfig aliasing
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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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