Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 18:38:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jose Monteiro <jm@pluriproj.pt> Cc: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ifconfig alias Message-ID: <19971002183817.06778@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <34335abd.254404@mail.leirianet.pt>; from Jose Monteiro on Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 08:31:00AM %2B0000 References: <Pine.UW2.3.95.970930095758.9140C-100000@cedb> <34335abd.254404@mail.leirianet.pt>
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On Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 08:31:00AM +0000, Jose Monteiro wrote:
> No dia Tue, 30 Sep 1997 09:58:40 -0700 (PDT), escreveu o seguinte:
>
>> On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Jose Monteiro wrote:
>>> ifconfig_ed0="inet A.B.C.138 netmask 255.255.255.224"
>>> ifconfig_ed0_alias0="inet A.B.C.139 netmask 255.255.255.255"
>>> ifconfig ed0_alias0="inet A.B.C.140 netmask 255.255.255.255"
>>> ifconfig ed0_alias0="inet A.B.C.141 netmask 255.255.255.255"
>>>
>>> Only the first and second IP alias (138, 139) go Up. The others stay
>>> down.
>>
>> Make the additional aliases alias1, alias2, etc...
>
> I did. I've changed ifconfig lines in my rc.conf to:
>
> ifconfig_ed0="inet A.B.C.138 netmask 255.255.255.224"
> ifconfig_ed0_alias0="inet A.B.C.139 netmask 255.255.255.255"
> ifconfig ed0_alias1="inet A.B.C.140 netmask 255.255.255.255"
> ifconfig ed0_alias2="inet A.B.C.141 netmask 255.255.255.255"
>
> But when i rebooted, the same thing happened: Only 138 and 139 wen Up.
> The others stayed down.
>
> So I had to do it manualy as always:
>
> # ifconfig ed0 inet A.B.C.140 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias
> # ifconfig ed0 inet A.B.C.141 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias
>
> Why can't I do this in rc.conf?
Well, it would help if you also put in the _ between ifconfig and ed0
in the last two lines:
ifconfig_ed0_alias1="inet A.B.C.140 netmask 255.255.255.255"
ifconfig_ed0_alias2="inet A.B.C.141 netmask 255.255.255.255"
^
This one.
You should be getting error messages from the startup scripts.
Greg
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