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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:16207 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5086 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!bubba.ucc.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!trinews.sbc.com!newspump.wustl.edu!newsreader.wustl.edu!news.starnet.net!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!peernews.demon.co.uk!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Multiple IP addresses for a single interface Date: 25 Jan 1995 01:28:06 -0000 Organization: None Lines: 25 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3g49f6$bs6@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> References: <3fi55h$3pp@cs.ubc.ca> <3fja1v$qs4@hpsystem1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <3fmj3i$52h@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Jon Jenkins (jenkinsj@oils.ozy.dec.com) wrote: : 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 ?? Yep. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....