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From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To: Rob Buchanan <rob@www.odod.ohio.gov>
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Subject: Re: Multi host web server on FreeBSD
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On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Rob Buchanan wrote:

> I need to add another ip address to our FreeBSD 2.1 web server.  I am
> running Apache 1.1.1 and will soon be adding urls with a different ip
> address.  I don't want to rely on Apache's non-ip virtual hosting
> because it would not be transparent to all browsers.  Do I need to add
> another ethernet card or is there another way to serve more than one ip
> address on the same FreeBSD server?
Use IP aliases, like so:
ifconfig de0 inet <ip-address> netmask 255.255.255.255 alias

This will add an alias address to an existing interface (de0 in this 
example). Note that the mask should be all 1-s.

> 
> Thanks
> Rob Buchanan
> rob@www.odod.ohio.gov
>