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From: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root)
Message-Id: <199606051727.MAA04210@astro.acs.uswest.com>
Subject: Re: ifconfig aliasing
To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 12:27:19 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: jimd@mistery.mcafee.com, questions@freefall.freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <9606051612.AA07808@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Jun 5, 96 12:12:24 pm
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In a previous message, Garrett Wollman said:
> 
> <<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.

That's how sun does address aliasing.


> This is probably a bug; it should not have accepted `ep0:1'.  What on
> earth made you decide to write that?


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