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From: se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Multiple IP address
Date: 10 Nov 1995 16:09:49 GMT
Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany
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Sender: se@Sysiphos (Stefan Esser)
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References: <47pjkm$mq3@eon.ecco.com> <47ukut$j0n@kaleka.seanet.com>
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In article <47ukut$j0n@kaleka.seanet.com>, bolsen@odinn.seanet.com writes:
|> In article <47pjkm$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?

Yes, of course it is possible, 
and it can be useful for several
purposes.

Use the "alias" modifier in the 
ifconfig parameter list, and do
not forget to specify a netmask 
of 0xffffffff.

See the man page ...

Regards, STefan
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