Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!uknet!SoNet!news
From: chris@aladdin.net
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with ifconfig alias
Date: 5 Aug 1995 23:08:31 GMT
Organization: Aladdin Internet
Lines: 23
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <400tlf$5na@alpha.aladdin.co.uk>
NNTP-Posting-Host: me.aladdin.co.uk
X-Newsreader: <WinQVT/Net v3.9>
In article <3vuhco$86n@gate.sinica.edu.tw>, taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
writes:
>In article <3vtud3$inv@alpha.aladdin.co.uk>, <chris@aladdin.net> wrote:
>:
>:Can anyone help explain what is happening in the example below.
>:I need multiple IP addresses on the same interface in order to
>:run multiple www servers. This works fine under Linux but something
>:odd is happening under FreeBSD which I would like to switch to.
>[...]
>:bash# /sbin/ifconfig ed1 alias 193.119.96.55
>:ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists
>:^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Weird error message what file
>
> Try using a 0xffffffff netmask on your alias:
>
>ifconfig ed1 193.119.96.55 netmask 0xffffffff alias
Works fine, thanks a lot for the reply
>--
>Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
>taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org