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Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 19:17:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Kim Culhan <kimc@w8hd.org>
To: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <mitayai@dreaming.org>
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Subject: Re: *** HELP! ifconfig aliases!? ***
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On Mon, 4 Dec 1995, Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe wrote:

> Hmm... i tried this myself in order to play with the multi-domain aspect 
> of apache as:
> 
> ifconfig tun0 alias 198.96.119.1 netmask 0xffffffff
> 
> and got:
> 
> ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Destination address required
> 
> so, after checking out the man page, i determined that it should be:
> 
> ifconfig tun0 198.96.119.1 198.96.119.129 netmask 0xffffffff alias
> 
> but that still gave me the error:
> 
> ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists
> 
> any ideas?

It works on 2.1 Release as above but with the ed0 device, whats tun0
a tunnel device used for ppp ?

regards
kim

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