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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!arco!news.utdallas.edu!news.tamu.edu!xenon.brooks.af.mil!natinst.com!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!pacbell.com!amdahl.com!netcomsv!uu4news.netcom.com!davsys.com!news.irbs.com!not-for-mail From: jc@irbs.com (John Capo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Virtual hosting (probably a FAQ) Date: 5 Dec 1995 12:49:26 -0500 Organization: IRBS Engineering Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4a20n6$1o5@irbs.irbs.com> References: <DJ2HsD.DFw@ritz.mordor.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: irbs.irbs.com In article <DJ2HsD.DFw@ritz.mordor.com>, Chris Mauritz <ritz@ritz.mordor.com> wrote: >I checked www.freebsd.org and the archives of this newsgroup >but couldn't find any definitive answer. What exactly are >the steps needed to allow one machine to answer to more >than one IP address on the same interface? I read "man ifconfig" >but it isn't that clear. > >I'm assuming something like: > >ifconfig ep0 inet new.ip.address alias netmask 0xffffffff > >in rc.local will do the trick, but that seems to break the >networking for my machine. (can't even ping itself) > Use ifconfig ep0 alias new.ip.address netmask 0xffffffff after you have configured the primary address for the interface. John Capo jc@irbs.com IRBS Engineering High performance FreeBSD systems (305) 792-9551 Unix/Internet Consulting - ISP Solutions