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From: curt@portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Virtual Interface drivers
Date: 15 Sep 1995 19:34:21 -0700
Organization: Internet Portal Services, Ltd.
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Message-ID: <43dd3d$704@cynic.portal.ca>
References: <439ovt$gcs@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> <43at6h$8bv@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> <43cfvh$5sl@cynic.portal.ca> <43cgr2$e4p@orion.cc.andrews.edu>
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In article <43cgr2$e4p@orion.cc.andrews.edu>,
Andrew Gillham <gillham@andrews.edu> wrote:
>Perhaps a nice concise example?
This is directly from my /etc/rc.local file, with the names changed
to protect the innocent.
for i in \
www.something.com \
www.otherthing.com \
www.someorg.org \
127.123.45.67 \
www.rein.com \
# and so on and so forth
;
do
ifconfig ed0 $i alias
route add $i localhost
done
>'man ifconfig' doesn't really explain
>alias well, and perhaps implies only one alias. To me at least, the
>'Establish _an_ addition network _address_...' is singular.
Yes, it establishes only one additional alias every time you run the
command.
>Also, the
>delete option isn't very concise, and has no example. (i.e. is it
>'ifconfig ed0 alias x.x.x.x delete', or ifconfig ed0 delete..)
Just delete the address, without putting in the word alias:
ifconfig ed0 x.x.x.x delete
cjs
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