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From: Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Multiple IP address
Date: 18 Nov 1995 06:21:55 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp
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me@muc.ditec.de (Michael Elbel) wrote:
>Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com> writes:
>
>>most of the commercial UNIXes support
>>multihoming in one form or another (Digital UNIX
>>dont tho!).
>
>What? Tried a ifconfig alias on a Alpha recently? It certainly
>works for me here (OSF 3.2).

I said "multihoming" not ifconfig alias. It is one
thing to add the address to the ifaddr list it is
another to utilise it fully including source
address resolution. Digital UNIX does not support
multihoming yet. Slated for Platinum.next last
I heard...

>
>Michael
>--
>Michael Elbel, DITEC, Muenchen, Germany - me@muc.ditec.de
>Fermentation fault (coors dumped)

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