Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 22:54:01 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: rishim@teil.soft.net (Rishi Gautam) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig Message-ID: <199607222054.WAA06567@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9607230323.AA17217@teil.soft.net> from Rishi Gautam at "Jul 22, 96 07:23:57 pm"
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(Redirected to -questions.) As Rishi Gautam wrote: > ifconfig ed1 alias [address] netmask [netmask] > if I am using the netmask option with netmask same as of the netmask > of the exsisting configured addres, I am getting error "File exsits" Yes, use this only when adding addresses for other (sub)networks, not when adding an alias inside the same network. For the latter case, do always use 0xffffffff. > If I didn't using the netmas option or giving some other netmask > the command exits succesfully. But if I typed the "ifconfig ed1", > it doesn't show me all the address. It shows only the old address. That's FreeBSD 2.1, right? The ifconfig there didn't show more than one address. This has been fixed now. netstat -r should tell you about all aliases however. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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