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From: tjevans@rtp.vnet.ibm.com (Thomas J. Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: multiple IP addresses per interface
Date: 31 Aug 1995 11:42:22 GMT
Organization: TCP/IP Development
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <42476u$1uug@sernews.raleigh.ibm.com>
References: <423m4d$43d@almond.elite.net>
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In article <423m4d$43d@almond.elite.net>, nate@elite.net (Nate Lawson) writes:
|> I have been trying to use the 'alias' option of ifconfig to allow our
|> ethernet interface "ed0" to respond to multiple IP's.  I've never done it
|> on FreeBSD before, but I understand that the Solaris syntax is as follows:
|>
|> ifconfig ed0 1.2.3.4
|> ifconfig ed0 1.2.3.5 alias
Above is correct, if you try to ping 1.2.3.5 from another machine it will
work. An ifconfig ed0 will just display the first address.

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