Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 15:27:45 -0700 (PDT) From: pete@pelican.com (Pete Carah) To: current@freebsd.org Subject: ifconfig nit... Message-ID: <m0sd3JJ-000K2lC@pelican.com>
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I've found on trying a multihomed-www trick (using the advice in the FAQ coupled with some from Cerfnet's web folks) that ifconfig xxxxx alias works but gives an error message that might make some think it isn't working. -------------------------------------------------------- ns# ifconfig ed0 205.199.148.10 alias ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists ns# ifconfig ed0 205.199.148.11 alias ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists ns# ifconfig ed0 205.199.148.12 alias ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists ------------------------------------------------------- This actually does add the alias without disturbing the rest of the ifconfig, if I believe netstat -i (and ping from another host). It looks like the aliases can't be ping'd from within the multihomed host, though, without either some magic route incantation, or perhaps fixing something. The real objective here is a multihomed eudora server; popper won't differentiate domains without the same trick that http needs, because of a simple fact that the protocol-originators never thought of... (it would once have been simple to have http pass the entire request to the server instead of stripping the server-hostname from the request...) Not any more!! -- Pete
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