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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Apache Server and VIF: is VIF needed on FreeBSD?
Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 14:06:46 -0700
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To: Blake Swensen <blake@pbgi.com>

Blake Swensen wrote:
> There is mention of the Virtual InterFace, and adding this psuedo device to
> the kernel, to do ip aliasing--more than one ip address on the same card.  The

You don't need this - aliases are a built-in feature of the system.

> 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

The ifconfig command does this - see the man page.
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- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project