Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 17:48:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: scrappy@ki.net (Marc G. Fournier) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, ejc@gargoyle.bazzle.com, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IP ALIASING Message-ID: <199610110048.RAA14062@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.961010153711.29956B-100000@spirit.ki.net> from "Marc G. Fournier" at "Oct 10, 96 03:38:06 pm"
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> > > >ifconfig ppp0 alias 206.103.246.162 netmask 0xffffffff > > > >ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Destination address required > > > > Because it's not the correct syntax for an ifconfig command? ;-) > > > > If you read the man page, you'll see that alias is a parameter and, as > > such, must follow the address, not precede it. > > Ummm, I've been using this under 2.2-Current for the past 6months, without > any problems: > > ifconfig ed0 alias 205.150.102.63 netmask 255.255.255.255 The problem is that point-to-point interfaces require a destination IP address as well as a local one, like the error message says. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com
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