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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!207.43.3.4!gryphon.phoenix.net!not-for-mail From: "Greg" <gking@this.aint.my.address.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ifconfig alias problem Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 07:05:19 -0600 Organization: Balls.Org Lines: 37 Message-ID: <5pisjf$l32$1@gryphon.phoenix.net> References: <5pi65v$3h6@news.interlog.com> Reply-To: "Greg" <gking@neither.is.this.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gking.balls.org X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.0544.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE Engine V4.71.0544.0 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43925 Are you supplying the netmask? Also after putting the alias in the rc.conf, you must also type it into the command-line or reboot for the changes to take affect. Here is how my alis line looks : ifconfig de0 alias xxx.x.xxx.xx netmask 0xffffffff Greg >When I add 'alias 192.168.1.10' to the ifconfig_ed0 line in rc.conf, >ifconfig shows that 192.168.1.10 is the broadcast for the card's real >address. > >Then I tried to configure ed0 without the alias and try to add it after >with 'ifconfig ed0 alias 192.168.1.10'. It gave me the error 'ifconfig: >ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists'. Then the output of 'ifconfig ed0' >looked the way I thought it should - one line for each address - but I >couldn't ping 192.168.1.10. > >Ideas? Any help is greatly appreciated! > >Thanks, > >Patrick > > >-- >Patrick McConnell (patrick@interlog.com) >Finger info: http://www.interlog.com/~patrick/finger > >"640k ought to be enough for anybody." > -Bill Gates, 1981 >