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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.intercall.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-pen-4.sprintlink.net!hermes.is.co.za!news From: Inus Scheepers <inus@dockside.co.za> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Ifconfig alias problems on NE2000 clone, 2.1-R Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 12:20:59 -0200 Organization: Animatica Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3247EE4B.79F6@dockside.co.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-2.dockside.co.za Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Hi all, I wonder if someone has come accross this: We're running a few virtual web servers on 2.1R FreeBSD, using apache. There is a problem adding the alias ip's to the ethernet card. The system comes up fine, but won't accept normal ifconfig alias commands. Our first ip is on x.y.z.8, and we need aliases from .9 to .14. I can get it going by typing ifconfig ed1 x.y.z.9 alias netmask 0xffffffff, followed by ifconfig ed1 x.y.z.9 alias netmask 0xffffff00, and again ifconfig ed1 x.y.z.9 alias netmask 0xffffffff and repeating the same for the other ip's. What's going on? Surely this isn't normal? I'd like to put these aliases setups in a rc file somwhere, but now I have to do it manually every time the system reboots. Would an upgrade to a later version help fix it? Some more info: we have 2 class C addresses, x.y.54 and .55, with some ppp dial-up lines allocated to the .55 network. I use gated. To set up the main ip address, (on an NE2000 clone) I use ifconfig ed1 x.y.54.8 netmask 0xfffffe00 The system is quite stable and rarely falls over, with an unbroken run of about 30 days being the best so far. Any help/clues appreciated! -- I