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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!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Virtual hosts/virtual IP Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 20:53:05 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 31 Message-ID: <32669CB1.5D6F@www.play-hookey.com> References: <3266101e.0@calvin.aspen-internet.net> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) To: Simon Richardson <simon@onechip.co.uk> Simon Richardson wrote: > > Apologies if this is a commonly asked question. > > We would like to have one machine respond to maybe a dozen IP addresses, so > that we can run virtual websites. The machine we would like to do this feat > is running FreeBSD 2.1, and connected via an ethernet card. What we don't > want to do is hang a dozen serial/ethernet cards off it, so what we want is > to allocate a block of addresses to the one card. > > I believe we need something called a "virtual interface". Does such a beast > exist for FreeBSD? (And if it doesn't, can anyone offer pointers on writing > one? I know C pretty well, and have written character device drivers for > 386BSD and MS-DOG.) > > Our newsfeed is really flaky, so please copy to E-mail. > > Simon > [CC sent] You're talking here about aliasing, which FreeBSD does with no problem. The Apache webserver also runs virtual hosts nicely. Further info on the Apache end from http://www.apache.org/ . -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |