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From: Scott Taggart <taggart@cdepot.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Need Help With ifconfig alias...
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 10:22:38 +0000
Organization: Computer Depot, Jackson, CA. 209-223-5043
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I give up - I connot get ifconfig aliasing to work correctlly.
Yesterday, i did:
ifconfig ef0 www.taggart.com alias
which worked fine - I could ping the virtual host, etc. Now, no
matter what I do I get the following error message:
ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists
even after I reboot!
I have read that you can use "-alias" to undo an alias. While this
ifconfig seems to not complain and I can in fact do the ifconfig
again (with the alias, not -alias) and get no complaints, I can
never get a ping to work. What is going on here? I was even so
parinoid that I rebooted all the systems on the net -- no change.
Any help would be appreciated. Email answers would be better since
I see them sooner.
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Scott Taggart
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