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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!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!news.magicnet.net!news.thrush.com!alfred!bilver!bill From: bill@bilver.oau.org (Bill Vermillion) Subject: Re: IP Aliasing Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Orlando / Winter Park, FL Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 15:26:44 GMT Message-ID: <1997Jun10.152644.14248@bilver.oau.org> References: <01bc576a$ff7a8260$64d91dce@phishhead.dawtech.com> <86afmc5qqm.fsf@bitbox.follo.net> <339cc8f2.88895331@news.mindspring.com> <5njja2$dnh@news.gvsu.edu> Lines: 27 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42698 In article <5njja2$dnh@news.gvsu.edu>, Matt Behrens <behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu> wrote: >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 :) > So what is the difference between masquerading and aliasing. They appeared (to me) to do the same thing, and I assumed (wrongly I guess) that different OSes named them differently. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bill.vermillion@oau.org | bill@bilver.com