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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!inquo!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!eurocontrol.fr!ramses.eurocontrol.fr!not-for-mail From: rbt@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IP aliases? Date: 22 Jul 1996 11:54:27 GMT Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4svq5j$e79@ramses.eurocontrol.fr> References: <Duwuuw.AE@alisa.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: mozart.eurocontrol.fr [courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email] In article <Duwuuw.AE@alisa.org>, John J. Rushford <wjjr@alisa.org> wrote: > sure how to setup IP aliasing using ifconfig. I'm working with my ISP on Look into either the FAQ or the Handbook. Read ifconfig(8) too. In short, you do something like ifconfig ed0 inet foo.bar.com netmask 0xffffffff alias if the machine is on the same subnet and you can omit the netmask if not. You can see aliases with netstat -I ed0 > using two IP addresses aimed at my machine using two different DNS domain > names. I'd appreciate any pointers in this regard. BTW, how many IP aliases > will FreeBSD support? No real limit except mbufs and memory. Some have tried more than a couple hundred without problem. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- Eurocontrol EEC/TIS -=- Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr Usenet Canal Historique