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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!ux5.cso.uiuc.edu!igor From: igor@students.uiuc.edu (Igor Vladim Roshchin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Ifconfig aliases Date: 14 Jun 1996 07:14:14 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4pr3g6$jcb@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <31c0b59e.1668024@news.intergate.bc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: ux5.cso.uiuc.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Jordon Randall (jordon@intergate.bc.ca) wrote: : 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. If I am not missing anything, you can issue: /sbin/ifconfig ed1 alias your.ip.number netmask 0xfffffff00 IgoR aka StR@komkon.org