From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 29 23:18:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA10427 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:18:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA10422 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:18:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00746; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:18:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:18:55 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Frank MacLachlan cc: questions@freebsd.org, Frank MacLachlan Subject: Re: Problem w/ PPP and virtual web configuration In-Reply-To: <199610252121.OAA01393@ravel.n2.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Frank MacLachlan wrote: > I'm stumped because the virtual web hosting seems to require > alias IP addresses. I've seen this work with ethernet cards, > but when I try to create alias IP addresses for the tunnel > PPP device w/ ifconfig, I get 'ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Destination > address required'. I tried including the IP address of the > far end of the PPP link, but got 'ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): > File exists' for my efforts. What command line(s) are you using? pppd should automatically configure the starting interface; you should be able to run ifconfig ppp0 alias xx.yy.zz.qq netmask 255.255.255.255 and they should be added with no less fanfare. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major