Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!demon!kiss.demon.co.uk From: phil@zipmail.co.uk (Phil Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Multiple IP addresses with ifconfig alias Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 12:45:21 GMT Organization: Lan Systems Lines: 19 Message-ID: <817563011.22823@kiss.demon.co.uk> References: <49cknd$fpd@eplet.mira.net.au> Reply-To: phil@zipmail.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: kiss.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: kiss.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 robseco@wizard.teksupport.net.au (Rob Secombe) wrote: >Hi, >I am running FreeBSD 2.0 with a NE2000 compatible NIC (ed1) and I am >trying to add multiple IPs in order to run multple web servers with >multiple domains, but it doesn't seem to work. The command I have tried >is of the form "ifconfig ed1 inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx alias". It doesn't >complain when I enter the command but I get no response when trying to >ping the alias address. try 'netmask 0xffffffff' at the end of the ifconfig line !! Cheers Phil