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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Apache Server and VIF: is VIF needed on FreeBSD? Date: 18 May 1996 22:54:02 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4nlkea$1l5@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4nfqe3$m6p@nadine.teleport.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E blake@pbgi.com (Blake Swensen) wrote: > There is mention of the Virtual InterFace, ... > I have also seen some stuff bantered around this group about how to > accomplish this on FreeBSD. It is my desire not to recompile the > kernel, adding support for VIF, if I can possibly avoid it. Is > there a better way to perform ip aliasing on FreeBSD (2.1)? It's a ``core feature'' of 4.4BSD. Simply do ifconfig <interface> inet alias <aliasaddress> netmask 0xffffffff -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)