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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Multiple IP address
Date: 11 Nov 1995 00:07:04 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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References: <47pjkm$mq3@eon.ecco.com> <47ukut$j0n@kaleka.seanet.com>
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bolsen@odinn.seanet.com wrote:
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] In article <47pjkm$mq3@eon.ecco.com>, ranada@ifu.net (Gerald Ranada) writes:
] |> Is it possible to have multiple IP addresses on one ethernet card?  If 
] |> so, what is the command line?
]
] no. why would you want to?

Yes.  Man ifconfig, look for "alias".

You'd want if for multiple virtual hosts on a single WWW or FTP
service provider (one example).


                                        Terry Lambert
                                        terry@cs.weber.edu
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