Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 23:16:09 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> To: Richard A Childers <pascal@netcom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How Many IPs Can An Interface Take ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950524222539.21919K-100000@leo> In-Reply-To: <199505241400.HAA10582@netcom19.netcom.com>
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On Wed, 24 May 1995, Richard A Childers wrote:
>
> Hmm. Are you sure you didn't sequentially assign 57 separate addresses,
> one after another, to the same device, so that when you were done, you
> left it configured to the IP of the last address you'd ifconfig'd it with ?
No, it actually does work:
# foreach i (`seq 65 100 1 140.109.40.`)
foreach? ifconfig ed1 inet $d netmask 0xffffff00 alias
foreach? end
ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists
[repeat 35 times]
# netstat -i
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll
ed1 1500 <Link>00.00.e8.cb.cd.58 6621403 20 4458601 16 648020
ed1 1500 140.109.40 leo 6621403 20 4458601 16 648020
ed1 1500 140.109.40 140.109.40.65 6621403 20 4458601 16 648020
ed1 1500 140.109.40 140.109.40.66 6621403 20 4458601 16 648020
[...]
ed1 1500 140.109.40 140.109.40.99 6621403 20 4458601 16 648020
ed1 1500 140.109.40 140.109.40.100 6621403 20 4458601 16 648020
lp0* 1500 <Link> 0 0 0 0 0
lo0 16384 <Link> 316 0 316 0 0
lo0 16384 your-net localhost 316 0 316 0 0
Doing an fping from another host shows that the machine does
indeed respond at all the aliases.
I think ifconfig is supposed to add in a route for an alias, but
it can't, and I think that's why I get the "ifconfig: ioctl
(SIOCAIFADDR): File exists" error. So now I do this for each IP I
want to add and be able to access from the localhost:
ifconfig ed1 inet <alias> netmask 0xffffff00 alias
route add <alias> localhost
... which allows you access the alias over the loopback interface.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
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