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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!usenet From: Darryl Watson <dwatson> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: How to delete ifconfig aliases Date: 1 Sep 1995 19:41:18 GMT Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 968 5800 Lines: 8 Message-ID: <427nku$4qr@uuneo.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: stout.entertain.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) X-URL: news:comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc You use the following syntax: ifconfig <interface> <IP addr> -alias down ifconfig <interface> up Make sure you do the second command; the whole interface goes down when you remove an alias like this!