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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-in2.uu.net!venus.os.com!ppp3-os-gw.os.com!user 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 Lines: 16 Message-ID: <craigs-1910960012530001@ppp3-os-gw.os.com> References: <3266101e.0@calvin.aspen-internet.net> <nCrpd1r@quack.kfu.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: titan.os.com 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