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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!newsfeeds.sol.net!uwm.edu!msunews!gvsu!river.it.gvsu.edu!behrensm From: behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IP Aliasing Date: 10 Jun 1997 13:02:58 GMT Organization: Grand Valley State University Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5njja2$dnh@news.gvsu.edu> References: <01bc576a$ff7a8260$64d91dce@phishhead.dawtech.com> <86afmc5qqm.fsf@bitbox.follo.net> <339cc8f2.88895331@news.mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: river.it.gvsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42679 AC (anindya@bastard.net) wrote: : Under FreeBSD, IP aliasing is a snap. Simply type something like: : "ifconfig <interface_name> alias <ip_address>" It works pretty : darn well, and has saved my butt in a couple cases. The only : possible snag is if you have an entire subnet you need to : alias (rare, I know), in which case you need to create an : alias on that interface for *every* host in that subnet separately. This is a different type of aliasing, no? What the original poster wanted to know about was what should really be called IP masquerading. Aliasing is a different animal. But then again we call our slices partitions and our partitions slices so who cares :) -- Matt Behrens Zigg Computer Services zigg@iserv.net http://www.iserv.net/~zigg/