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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!zephyr.texoma.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!192.94.214.100!shemesh.hq.tis.com!troma.rv.tis.com!not-for-mail From: mark@troma.rv.tis.com (Mark Sienkiewicz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: adding IP to netstart w/o rebooting Date: 21 Mar 1997 14:23:06 -0500 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5gun6q$p4r@troma.rv.tis.com> References: <jpdavidE7DB5n.9LB@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: troma.rv.tis.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6411 In article <jpdavidE7DB5n.9LB@netcom.com>, hockey fan <jpdavid@netcom.com> wrote: > >I was wondering if you can add an ip address to the netstart (ifconfig), >without rebooting? It isn't a big deal to reboot, but I have had this >box up for 194 days (since upgrading from 2.0 to 2.1), and hate to >break the streak. :) Nothing "looks at" netstart to know what it should do. netstart is just a script that gets run when the system boots. You can execute the same commands that netstart would. For example, if you are adding an ip alias, you might type (something like...) ifconfig ef0 alias 1.2.3.4