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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.nic.surfnet.nl!rijnhaave.nl!news.cistron.nl!not-for-mail From: miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IP Aliasing Date: 4 Jan 1996 22:11:38 +0100 Organization: Cistron Internet Services - the Netherlands Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4chfqa$6ae@picard.cistron.nl> References: <147cc$11b15.165@kirk.microsys.net> <4ch3n8$2qe@nestor.sv.vtcom.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: picard.cistron.nl In article <4ch3n8$2qe@nestor.sv.vtcom.fr>, Pierre-Yves Kerembellec <pyk@sv.vtcom.fr> wrote: >rastis@wimsey.com (Rastislav Seffer) wrote: > >>Could someone please tell me if FreeBSD can do IP Aliasing? > >Yes, of course it can ! (just look at the 'ifconfig' manpage, options 'alias') >By the way, if you're trying to alias 2 IP addresses in the same subnet, you can >not directly use this facility ... you have to bind the new address to lo0 >(loopback device) instead, and then fill in the arp table manually (he, that's >tricky for hot-plugging stations on the network or for WEB virtual hosts ...) I've always been using ifconfig de0 alias 194.72.88.x netmask 255.255.255.255 for that, works just fine.. -- Miquel van | Cistron Internet Services -- Alphen aan den Rijn. Smoorenburg, | mailto:info@cistron.nl http://www.cistron.nl/ miquels@het.net | Tel: +31-172-419445 (Voice) 430979 (Fax) 442580 (Data)