From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 14 08:20:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA17190 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 May 1996 08:20:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA17182 for ; Tue, 14 May 1996 08:20:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA10528; Tue, 14 May 1996 11:19:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 11:19:09 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9605141519.AA10528@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: dneum@telelink.com (Dean Neumann) Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: ifconfig aliasing In-Reply-To: <9605140053.AA28069@telelink.com> References: <9605140053.AA28069@telelink.com> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < what is the exact syntax of the "alias" option to ifconfig? You put the word `alias' somewhere on the command line. It's not fussy, and it doesn't care about the order (so long as the interface name comes first). -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