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From: craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Virtual hosts/virtual IP
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 00:12:53 -0400
Organization: Orbit Systems
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Message-ID: <craigs-1910960012530001@ppp3-os-gw.os.com>
References: <3266101e.0@calvin.aspen-internet.net> <nCrpd1r@quack.kfu.com>
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In article <nCrpd1r@quack.kfu.com>, nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) wrote:

> 
> Longer answer: No, FreeBSD doesn't support virtual interfaces because it
> doesn't need them. It is able to handle multiple IP addresses per
> Ethernet interface without any trouble.
> 

How do you easily see the aliased interfaces?  Ifconfig -a only shows the
"real" one.  Linux has a nice feature where ifconfig -a shows them as
eth:0, eth:1, eth:2, ....

Anything like that planned for FBSD?


-Craig