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From: pflores@phoenix.net (Paul Flores)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Multiple IP address
Date: 10 Nov 1995 18:14:47 GMT
Organization: Phoenix Data Systems
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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?

ifconfig ed1 IP ADDR netmask 0xffffffff alias

It won't show up in an ifconfig -a, but it will work.


: no. why would you want to?


Multiple web servers on a single machine, Experiments and just general 
coolness.

Paul Flores


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