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From: trt@duke.cs.duke.edu (Tom Truscott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: HELP: How to have 2 Host IP nums but only 1 interface
Keywords: interface ip network routing host sun
Message-ID: <742763898@romeo.cs.duke.edu>
Date: 15 Jul 93 19:18:19 GMT
References: <mckay.742682655@cambridge> <1993Jul15.092609.3906@fokus.gmd.de>
Organization: IBM RTP
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AIX (and no doubt other versions of *IX) support multiple addresses
per interface, via the "alias" option on the ifconfig command.
The feature was in BSD net-2, and may have first appeared even earlier.