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From: jordon@intergate.bc.ca (Jordon Randall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Ifconfig aliases
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 00:46:16 GMT
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Can someone quickly tell me how to make an alias for a second internet
address on a NIC that already has an internet address bound to it?

I have these in my sysconfig already:
ifconfig_ed1="inet 206.87.19.1 netmask 255.255.255.0"
ifconfig_lo0="inet localhost"

thanx.