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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:16088 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4976 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!caen!crl.dec.com!crl.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!oils!jenkinsj From: jenkinsj@oils.ozy.dec.com (Jon Jenkins) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Multiple IP addresses for a single interface Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Date: 19 Jan 1995 20:46:42 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 33 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3fmj3i$52h@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> References: <3fi55h$3pp@cs.ubc.ca> <3fja1v$qs4@hpsystem1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: oils.ozy.dec.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2(HT3)] Armin Gruner (gruner@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE) wrote: : croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) writes: : >I notice that 4.4BSD has SIOCAIFADDR and SIOCDIFADDR ioctls for apparently : >dealing with more than one IP address for a physical interface. Looks : >like ifconfig makes use of them too. : >Does this work for configuring a single ethernet interface to have more : >than one IP address? Has anybody tried this to make a single machine : >appear to be two separate Internet nodes? : Yes, ifconfig <if-name> alias <alternate IP-address> i suppose that I should look at the code but does the multihoming actually work i.e. is the code in the kernle actually there and enabled to handle the multihoming ?? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Dr Jon Jenkins Location: Digital Equipment Corp, NaC, Burnett Place, Research Park, Bond University, Gold Coast QLD, AUSTRALIA 4229 Phone: 61-75-75-0151 Fax: 61-75-75-0100 Internet: jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com The opinions expressed above are entirely personal and do not reflect the corporate policy of DEC or the opinions of DEC management. -----------------------------------------------------------------------