Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 11:48:32 +0000 From: joe@pavilion.net (Josef Karthauser) To: danny@panda.hilink.com.au (Daniel O'Callaghan) Cc: joe@pavilion.net (Josef Karthauser), hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: additions to /etc/netstart Message-ID: <Mutt.19970213114832.joe@florence.pavilion.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970213224603.427K-100000@panda.hilink.com.au>; from Daniel O'Callaghan on Feb 13, 1997 22:51:06 %2B1100 References: <Mutt.19970213103515.joe@florence.pavilion.net> <Pine.BSF.3.91.970213224603.427K-100000@panda.hilink.com.au>
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Daniel O'Callaghan writes:
>
> Well, it does not seem to cater for people like me who have an entire
> Class C network aliased onto lo0. I'm sure there are plenty of other
> ISPs running lots of VWS on a single machine. Even when I exhaust the
> current class C net, I won't be putting in a new machine for the next
> lot, I'll just have 508 aliases instead of 254. I certainly don't fancy
> a line
> network_aliases_lo0="{insert many lines of IP addresses here} "
>
> in /etc/sysconfig.
>
> How about a scheme whereby the aliases are read from /etc/ip.aliases.lo0
>
That's a better idea.
--
Josef Karthauser
Technical Manager Email: joe@pavilion.net
Pavilion Internet plc. [Tel: +44 1273 607072 Fax: +44 1273 607073]
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