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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Multiple Ip Addresses
Date: 8 Mar 1996 22:41:44 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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johnc@csdc.toshiba.com.au (John Creasey) writes:
> 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.
How many machines do you have connected to your _loopback_ network?
:-))
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