From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 13 03:49:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA04988 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 03:49:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA04978 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 03:49:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA19400; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 11:48:32 GMT Message-ID: 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 References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.58.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from Daniel O'Callaghan on Feb 13, 1997 22:51:06 +1100 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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]