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Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 06:26:35 -0100
To: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
From: Darius Moos <moos@degnet.baynet.de>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD ethernet alias setup
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In FreeBSD-2.1.5 there is a special mechanism for doing this.
Howto:
In /etc/sysconfig:
  Set your network-devices but don't specify any arguments for them.
  In your case:
  ...
  network_interfaces="ed1 eth0 lo0"
  # no ifconfig_ed1-, ifconfig_eth0- or ifconfig_lo0-options here

Then create files /etc/start_if.ed0, /etc/start_if.eth0 and /etc/start_if.lo0
In /etc/start_if.ed0:
   /sbin/ifconfig ed0 inet 206.171.98.29  netmask 255.255.255.0
   /sbin/ifconfig ed0 inet 206.171.98.1 netmask 0xffffffff alias
   # more aliases if desired.

In /etc/start_if.eth0:
   /sbin/ifconfig eth0 inet 206.13.17.50 206.13.17.49 netmask 255.255.255.252

In /etc/start_if.lo0:
   /sbin/ifconfig lo0 inet 127.0.0.1

Reboot.

BTW, you already asked the same question some time ago and i already answered
it.

Darius Moos.


At 17:29 04.01.97 -0800, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>	How does one setup a alias for ed1 of 206.171.98.1 when the
>address for the machine is already 206.171.98.29 for use with the ET
>Synchronous Serial Card as a router in /etc/sysconfig in FreeBSD 2.1.6R
>since all the other machines are pointing to 206.171.98.1 for the default
>route. Here is what I have in /etc/sysconfig now:
>
>network_interfaces="ed1 eth0 lo0"
>ifconfig_ed1="inet 206.171.98.29  netmask 255.255.255.0"
>ifconfig_eth0="inet 206.13.17.50 206.13.17.49 netmask 255.255.255.252"
>
>ifconfig_lo0="inet localhost"
>
>defaultrouter=206.13.17.49
>
>
>Cheers,
>Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET
>Unix Networking Operations
>GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate
>Beverly Hills, California USA 90210
>
>
>
>