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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!demon!kiss.demon.co.uk From: phil@zipmail.co.uk (Phil Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Virtual hosting (probably a FAQ) Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1995 18:41:09 GMT Organization: Lan Systems Lines: 31 Message-ID: <818451011.18285@kiss.demon.co.uk> References: <DJ2HsD.DFw@ritz.mordor.com> <4a4okl$f1@buffnet2.buffnet.net> Reply-To: phil@zipmail.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: kiss.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: kiss.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 shovey@buffnet.net (steve hovey) wrote: >Chris Mauritz (ritz@ritz.mordor.com) wrote: >: I checked www.freebsd.org and the archives of this newsgroup >: but couldn't find any definitive answer. What exactly are >: the steps needed to allow one machine to answer to more >: than one IP address on the same interface? I read "man ifconfig" >: but it isn't that clear. >: I'm assuming something like: >: ifconfig ep0 inet new.ip.address alias netmask 0xffffffff >I put it in a batch file called by rc.local - if is: >ifconfig ed1 999.999.999.999 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias in /etc/netstart there is a mechanism which allows this and is a bit cleaner than rc.local, simply create a shell file called /etc/start_if.{interface name} and it will be called at boot up ! >You cannot ping any of the aliased ips from the machine it is aliased on >- but should be able to from any other machine. I have about 10 aliases IP's on my FBSD box and CAN ping all of them from that box !!!!