From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 25 15:24:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA25673 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 15:24:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA25642 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 15:24:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ravel.n2.net (ravel.n2.net [204.250.22.20]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id OAA17222 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:20:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from fpm@localhost) by ravel.n2.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA01393; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:21:00 -0700 From: Frank MacLachlan Message-Id: <199610252121.OAA01393@ravel.n2.net> Subject: Problem w/ PPP and virtual web configuration To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:21:00 -0700 (PDT) Cc: fpm@ravel.n2.net (Frank MacLachlan) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm trying to help someone set up a FreeBSD-2.1.5R system to serve virtual WWW domains (using the Apache http server) and virtual mail domains. He has registered a domain name and has a block of eight IP addresses assigned to him from a local ISP provider. He wants to connect his FreeBSD system to the provider full time via PPP, experiment w/ the web pages on the system, and do some testing w/ people accessing his over the internet. He doesn't care about the rotten perfor- mance he'll probably get during the testing phase. At some point, the system would be co-hosted. I'm stumped because the virtual web hosting seems to require alias IP addresses. I've seen this work with ethernet cards, but when I try to create alias IP addresses for the tunnel PPP device w/ ifconfig, I get 'ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Destination address required'. I tried including the IP address of the far end of the PPP link, but got 'ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists' for my efforts. Is there any reasonable way to do this? I've looked through my FreeBSD mailing list archives, but haven't found anything helpful. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Frank MacLachlan