From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 17 12:35:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.intop.net (smtp.intop.net [206.156.254.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1E4937B4CF for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:35:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from charlie (iwkcpe.intop.net [208.149.79.30]) by smtp.intop.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA14899; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:37:05 -0500 Message-Id: <200010171937.OAA14899@smtp.intop.net> From: "Charlie Schloemer" To: , "Erin" Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:42:24 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Adding an IP alias without a reboot. In-reply-to: <004d01c03866$e3edb540$e815820a@sdccd.cc.ca.us> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 17 Oct 00, at 11:20, Erin wrote: > I have a production machine whos IP is going to change. I have to add an > aliased IP to it for a while from a completely different subnet then by the > middle of next month have everything changed over (i.e. defaultrouter, dns > servers, etc.). I'd like to do this with out rebooting the machine if > possable. > > The machine in question is a 3.3-RELEASE and is colocated with very limited > access. ifconfig will allow you to create an alias without rebooting. Check the man pages for more information, specifically, look for the 'alias' option. The syntax is easy. :-) -Charlie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message