From owner-freebsd-net Mon Dec 21 23:14:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA10643 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 23:14:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from summer.kumagai.nf (kenny42.zip.com.au [61.8.18.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA10594 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 23:13:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shigetoh@zip.com.au) Received: from localhost (shigetoh@localhost) by summer.kumagai.nf (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA00586; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 18:13:24 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from shigetoh@zip.com.au) X-Authentication-Warning: summer.kumagai.nf: shigetoh owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 18:13:23 +1100 (EST) From: Shigetoh Kumagai X-Sender: shigetoh@summer.kumagai.nf To: Kurt Keller cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP aliases In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.16.19981221225911.439f4d8a@pop.pbdhome.pinboard.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id XAA10634 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kurt, Have you looked at /etc/rc.conf file? There is a sample setting for network alias. ------> Sail OZ Shigetoh Kumagai On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Kurt Keller wrote: > On my FreeBSD 2.2.5 server I need to assign at least one more IP > address to the ethernet card (only one, not even a slot free for an > additional card). So I did > > ifconfig ed1 inet 192.168.0.8 alias > > ifconfig -a shows the additional address together with the already > assigned one (192.168.0.1) and from other stations, I can also access > it. However, on the server itself no route is created (netstat -nr) for > this new virtual interface, neither can the server access itself (ping, > telnet or anything) on this virtual address. Both addresses, .1 and .8 > are on the same subnet. > > Did I miss something or is this the way FreeBSD is supposed to behave? > I often do this kind of stuff on Solaris because there are not enough > sbus slots for the number of token ring interfaces required. On Solaris > the new virtual interface gets a name of its own (tr0 for the physical > interface, tr0:1, tr0:2, tr0:3 etc. for the added virtual ones) and > also the route entries are created accordingly. > > Kurt > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > ¦ Kurt@pinboard.com http://www.pinboard.com/ business ¦ > ¦ http://www.pinboard.com/kurt/ private ¦ > ¦--------------------------------------------------------------------¦ > ¦ Unix and Internet Specialist ¦ > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message