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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
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Date: 19 Jan 1995 20:46:42 GMT
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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 ??


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