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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.dfn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!zpr.uni-koeln.de!se From: se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Multiple IP address Date: 10 Nov 1995 16:09:49 GMT Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany Lines: 23 Sender: se@Sysiphos (Stefan Esser) Message-ID: <47vtgd$fc7@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: <47pjkm$mq3@eon.ecco.com> <47ukut$j0n@kaleka.seanet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sysiphos.mi.uni-koeln.de In article <47ukut$j0n@kaleka.seanet.com>, bolsen@odinn.seanet.com writes: |> 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, of course it is possible, and it can be useful for several purposes. Use the "alias" modifier in the ifconfig parameter list, and do not forget to specify a netmask of 0xffffffff. See the man page ... Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>