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From: bolsen@seanet.com (Bruce Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Multiple IP address
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 05:20:10 GMT
Organization: DUO Systems
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References: <47pjkm$mq3@eon.ecco.com> <47ukut$j0n@kaleka.seanet.com> <30A57273.7810@inetdirect.net>
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Mark Wilson <mrw@inetdirect.net> wrote:

>bolsen@odinn.seanet.com wrote:
>> 
>> In article <47pjkm$mq3@eon.ecco.com>, ranada@ifu.net (Gerald 
>Ranada) writes:
>> |> Is it possible to have multiple IP addresses on one ethernet 
>card?  If
>> |> so, what is the command line?

>> no. why would you want to?

>So, you're saying you can't do an ifconfig alias? Doesn't sound right 
>to me.

>Mark Wilson
>mrw@inetdirect.net
For the record, FreeBSD has an alias option with ifconfig. Several
other versions of UNIX I use, including SVID compliant versions
do not. Sorry for the confusion.