From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 25 13:47: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F38E137B9C9 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:46:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@nwlink.com) Received: from utah (jcwells@utah.nwlink.com [209.20.130.41]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA22377; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:46:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:58:38 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcwells@utah To: Kenneth Karoliussen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, odin Subject: Re: Aliased network interface In-Reply-To: <076401bff646$2f682040$1a85bcd5@kekar.dhs.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Kenneth Karoliussen wrote: > Are there any methods for creating a *true* alias network interfaces? > I'm not talking about attached alias IP addresses to a single interface.. True? I have only used Redhat and FreeBSD. Based on that alone, alias _is_ attaching an alias IP address to a single interface. > I really want this because I need a method for speaking with multiple > source IP address to foreign hosts, by create multiple entries in the > routing table. I know this was possible on a Linux based system by > creating aliased interfaces like eth0 -> eth0:1, eth0:2 and attach > different IP addressed to the alias interfaces. > > PC1 (with one psyical NIS (eth0)) > 192.168.1.1 <---eth0---> Net A > 192.168.1.2 <---eth0:1(alias)---> Net B > 193.168.1.3 <---eth0:2(alias)---> Host A FreeBSD does not have the eth0:0 semantics. Destination Gateway Flags Netif Expire 192.168.1 link#1 UC fxp0 => 192.168.1.200/32 link#1 UC fxp0 => These two entries are for the same interface. There are multiple entries in the routing table. The difference is the cosmetics of the display. That or I am smoking crack. Thank you, Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message