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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!ktso From: ktso@decmgt.csc.cuhk.hk (SO Kwok Tsun) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Multiple IP addresses with ifconfig alias Date: 30 Nov 1995 02:57:25 GMT Organization: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Lines: 15 Message-ID: <49j6il$k32@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk> References: <49cknd$fpd@eplet.mira.net.au> <817563011.22823@kiss.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: ktso@cuhk.hk NNTP-Posting-Host: ktso@decmgt.csc.cuhk.hk X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #6 (NOV) phil@zipmail.co.uk (Phil Taylor) writes: >>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 !! Is there any way to check the current alias setup? Can we remove it afterwards? The man page seems not telling detail about it. -- SO Kwok Tsun [蘇國俊] Information Technology Service Unit, CUHK [香港中文大學資訊科技服務處] Email: ktso@cuhk.hk