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#! rnews 1185 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Apache Server and VIF: is VIF needed on FreeBSD? Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 14:06:46 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 13 Message-ID: <319F8D66.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <4nfqe3$m6p@nadine.teleport.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b3 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Blake Swensen <blake@pbgi.com> Blake Swensen wrote: > There is mention of the Virtual InterFace, and adding this psuedo device to > the kernel, to do ip aliasing--more than one ip address on the same card. The You don't need this - aliases are a built-in feature of the system. > I have also seen some stuff bantered around this group about how to accomplish > this on FreeBSD. It is my desire not to recompile the kernel, adding The ifconfig command does this - see the man page. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project