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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!goya!abf.abaforum.es!usenet From: Manolo Estevez <mestevez@abaforum.es> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Anyone using VIF ( Virtual Interfaces kernel pseudo-devices ) on FreeBSD? Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 09:37:24 -0800 Organization: Abaforum Lines: 27 Message-ID: <30BDEBD4.50AC@abaforum.es> References: <49hbgk$le@hilbert.dnai.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: node22.abaforum.es Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b3 (Win16; I) Karl Wiebe wrote: > > Well, Paul Ioannidis' vif package of kernel mods works on SunOS and HPUX 10, so > I assume that it wouldn't be unusually hard to fold them into FreeBSD-2.1, but > I wondered if anyone had already done so... > > For those unfamiliar with vif, it is a way to run multiple Virtual Domains in > a slightly cleaner way than using ifconfig alias and proxy ARP. You can do > things like "alias" an entire Class C range. > > Thanks. > > --Karl You don't need to patch the kernel in FreeBSD as vif says, just use ifconfig to configure new IP address using the same interface (look at ifconfig man pages for using 'alias'). Merge with Apache WWW server and you can serve some domain webs (I'm doing!) Manolo.saludos(); ---------------------------------------------------------- Manolo Estevez ABAFORUM mestevez@abaforum.es Rambla del Celler, 65 Tel: +34 3 519 8111 E08190 Sant Cugat Fax: +34 3 589 3342 Barcelona (SPAIN) ----------------------------------------------------------