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From: Thanva Khouvongsavanh <thanva@shoreland.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: How to do ifconfig alias
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 10:04:09 -0500
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Hola,

I am having trouble doing ifconfig alias.

I setup the ethernet card in sysconfig

    ifconfig eth0 204.29.202.10 netmask 255.255.255.0

then in rc.local I do a 

    ifconfig eth0 204.29.202.10 alias 204.29.202.11

Sometime this works, but sometime it doesent.

why?

Thanks

Thanva