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From: Patrick McConnell <patrick@patrick.interlog.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ifconfig alias problem
Date: 4 Jul 1997 17:51:39 GMT
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Greg <gking@this.aint.my.address.com> wrote:
> Here is how my alis line looks :
> ifconfig de0 alias xxx.x.xxx.xx netmask 0xffffffff

Oh yes, I was missing the netmask. It works fine now, thanks. I knew it
would be something simple!

Patrick


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