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From: Arjan Knepper <arjan@jak.nl>
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To: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com>
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Subject: Re: ifconfig aliases
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Christopher Farley wrote:

> A machine's primary IP address on the xl0 interface is 10.0.0.2.
> For the purposes of running a webserver, I have an IP alias on the
> same interface: 10.0.0.32
>
> The machine now advertises itself to my network as 10.0.0.32.
>
> Is there a way to force this machine to advertise itself as it's primary
> IP address, 10.0.0.2?
>
> Attached are the relevant lines from rc.conf, and an ifconfig xl0
>
> # cat /etc/rc.conf | grep xl0
> network_interfaces="xl0 lo0"
> ifconfig_xl0="inet 10.0.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0"
> ifconfig_xl0_alias0="inet 10.0.0.32 netmask 255.255.255.255 broadcast 10.0.0.255"

Should be:
ifconfig_xl0_alias0="inet 10.0.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0"
ifconfig_xl0_alias1="inet 10.0.0.32 netmask 255.255.255.255 broadcast 10.0.0.255"

Arjan


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