From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 5 10:02:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA15481 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 10:02:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA15475 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 10:02:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA09888; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 13:02:08 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 13:02:08 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9606051702.AA09888@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Nik Clayton Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig aliasing In-Reply-To: <199606051657.RAA18766@guava.blueberry.co.uk> References: <9606051612.AA07808@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199606051657.RAA18766@guava.blueberry.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > This doesn't work for me. At start up I do a bunch of aliases to de0. All > these work, because I can ping them, traceroute to them, and other > machines on the network can talk to them, but 'ifconfig -a' just shows: > 'de0' has 1 primary address (.51) and 5 aliases assigned to it. > Perhaps it's dependent on the driver being used? Actually, I think it's simpler than that. You are using 2.1 or -stable. The code that knows how to retrieve and print all of the addresses wasn't added until after the 2.1 branch. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant