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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!newnews.mikom.csir.co.za!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news.nl.innet.net!INnl.net!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!cedb!usenet From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> Subject: Re: Alias IP to a Network Card Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Butch Evans <butche@sheltonlink.com> Sender: usenet@news.beach.net (Charlie Root) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Nntp-Posting-Host: dpcdev.dpcsys.com Organization: Beach.Net, the Beach Cities, California Message-ID: <32755D6C.167E@dpcsys.com> References: <3273DD7D.4CE7@sheltonlink.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; U; SCO_SV 3.2 i386) Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 01:27:08 GMT Lines: 21 Butch Evans wrote: > > I am trying to set up an alias for my webserver (Apache 1.1.1) under > FreeBSD 2.1. I have read the FAQ, and it said use > > ifconfig_<interface> "inet <ip> netmask 0xffffffff alias" > > This just killed my main IP...I have tried several of the other Did you make an extra entry in network_interfaces ? e.g. network_interfaces="lo0 ed1 ed1 ed1" Did you leave in the original ifconfig_interface line? Did you leave the original ifconfig_interface line first in sysconfig? These are the first things I would check. Personally I do the ifconfig's for our aliases from a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d Dan