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#! rnews 1248 bsd From: "OkMi Lynch" <okmi@jorsm.com> Subject: Re: multiple IP on one i/f Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc References: <33a7fdfb.5230095@news1.star.net> Organization: JORSM Enterprises, Inc. Message-ID: <01bc8eea$87594fc0$438370cf@okmi.jorsm.com> X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 NNTP-Posting-Host: venus.jorsm.com Date: 12 Jul 97 16:36:51 GMT Lines: 17 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!ix.netcom.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!news2.digex.net!news5.digex.net!news.kcdata.com!venus.jorsm.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44340 Frank DiPrete <frankd@star.net> wrote in article <33a7fdfb.5230095@news1.star.net>... > > question: > can you/how do you put a second IP address on an interface in freeBSD? > in BSD it was done in the /etc/ethers file. > frankd@star.net > www.star.net/People/~frankd/ > /sbin/ifconfig de0 inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.255 alias Of course replace the de0 with your ethernet device and the xxx's with your ip address. This works for FreeBSD 2.2.1 --jeff (posting from a friends mailbox, please do not reply, they will get incredibly confused)