From owner-freebsd-security Fri Apr 11 12:22:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA13543 for security-outgoing; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 12:22:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bastion.netlink.co.uk (root@PLiG.net [194.88.140.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA13523; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 12:22:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from trig@localhost) by bastion.netlink.co.uk (8.8.5/8.6.12) id UAA02103; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 20:24:49 +0100 (BST) From: Christiaan Keet (systems) Message-Id: <199704111924.UAA02103@bastion.netlink.co.uk> Subject: Re: Virutal Interfaces how ?? In-Reply-To: from Michael Ryan at "Apr 11, 97 06:47:55 pm" To: mike@NetworX.ie Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 20:24:49 +0100 (BST) Cc: rama@easynet.fr, security@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: trig@netlink.co.uk X-URL: http://www.plig.net/~keet X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Ryan wrote: > On Fri, 11 Apr 1997 17:59:43 +0200 (MET DST) David Ramahefason wrote: > > > I've seen that aliasing on IP was allowed under FreeBSD, > > but How do I specify the name of those Interfaces as on > > Linux ??? de0:0-de0:1 etc.... > > If alias is on same IP network: > # ifconfig ed0 inet 194.9.12.99 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias > > If alias is on different IP network: > # ifconfig ed0 inet 194.9.12.99 netmask 255.255.255.0 alias We use this quite extensively, but is there any way of de-configuring one of these aliases without rebooting the machine? With Linux you can just do an 'ifconfig ed0 down' I believe. Christiaan -- - Christiaan Keet - trig@netlink.net.uk - Senior Systems Developer - Netlink -