From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 10 12:38:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA10901 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 12:38:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from quagmire.ki.net (root@quagmire.ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA10896 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 12:38:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spirit.ki.net (root@spirit.ki.net [205.150.102.51]) by quagmire.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with ESMTP id PAA03744; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 15:38:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by spirit.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA29986; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 15:38:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: spirit.ki.net: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 15:38:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: "Eric J. Chet" , Ollivier Robert , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IP ALIASING In-Reply-To: <493.844973753@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Hello > > Why does this not work with ppp0 under -current? > > > > >ifconfig ppp0 alias 206.103.246.162 netmask 0xffffffff > > >ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Destination address required > > Because it's not the correct syntax for an ifconfig command? ;-) > > If you read the man page, you'll see that alias is a parameter and, as > such, must follow the address, not precede it. > Ummm, I've been using this under 2.2-Current for the past 6months, without any problems: ifconfig ed0 alias 205.150.102.63 netmask 255.255.255.255 Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org