From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 28 17:56:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F5C014D9C for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 17:56:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Received: from eboa.com (n669.telekabel.euronet.nl [194.134.130.170]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA05110; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 02:56:19 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by eboa.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id DAA21395; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 03:01:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Message-ID: <37781A59.9C2CE07E@eboa.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 02:59:05 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Donald Burr Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP aliasses References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Donald Burr wrote: > > man 8 ifconfig, and look at /etc/rc.conf. Here is an example from my own > machine (My interface card is pn0, replace it with ed0 or whatever is > appropriate for your system). IP addresses have been changed to protect > the innocent. > > ifconfig_pn0="inet A.B.C.D netmask 255.255.255.0" > # this is my own IP address for my home network > ifconfig_pn0_alias0="inet E.F.G.H netmask 255.255.255.0" > # this is the IP address given to me by my ADSL provider Things like that, yes. Thanks. Would have never guessed that from: The following parameters may be set with ifconfig: alias Establish an additional network address for this interface. This is sometimes useful when changing network numbers, and one wishes to accept packets addressed to the old interface. Also, let us not forget rc.network. That is, after all, what iterates the aliases . This is just a for the record, mind you. Thanks, I'll give it a shot. Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message