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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Thank You Charles Mott (cmott@srv.net)
Date: 17 Nov 1996 08:37:29 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) wrote:
> I would like to make a public thank you to Charles Mott for his
> work on IP aliasing.
> I would really love to see this functionality added into the basic
> FreBSD system. Is there some reason that this should not be done?
Huh?
IFCONFIG(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual IFCONFIG(8)
NAME
ifconfig - configure network interface parameters
...
The following parameters may be set with ifconfig:
alias Establish an additional network address for this inter-
face. This is sometimes useful when changing network
numbers, and one wishes to accept packets addressed to
the old interface.
Well, it's not Charles Mott's version but 4.4BSD's (which presumably
predates Charles Mott's version), but apart from this, is there any
reason why you wouldn't like to use it?
--
cheers, J"org
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