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From: gmann@haven.ios.com (Glen Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Multiple Ip Addresses
Date: 8 Mar 1996 03:30:45 GMT
Organization: Phrantic Physics
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I had success with

  ifconfig de0 inet alias a.b.c.d

but had seen that another post had put a netmask (ffffffff I think) on the 
end.  Anyone know why the netmask?  The IP I used was valid and within 
the same domain as the "base" host.

John Creasey (johnc@csdc.toshiba.com.au) wrote:
: I have been trying to get multiple ip addresses to work.

: I used: 
: ifconfig lo0 alias a.b.c.d netmask 0xffffff00 
: to set up an alias, but I have found that 
: none of the other machines can see the new address.

: I tried using 
: arp -s a.b.c.d x:y:z:.. pub 

: and that seems
: to work, but I'm not sure if this is the right way to go 
: about setting this up. I haven't seen anyone else mention
: using arp directly.

: Does anyone know if this is correct?

: -- 
: ---------------------------------------------------------------------
: John Creasey                                johnc@csdc.toshiba.com.au

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