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Date:      05 Apr 2001 14:15:36 +0200
From:      Knut.Syed@nhh.no (Knut A. Syed)
To:        "Gimbert Mario" <mgimbert@sbsd.de>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ifconfig aliases
Message-ID:  <s3iofubmtjr.fsf@kas.nhh.no>
In-Reply-To: <014701c0bdbb$203608c0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104051204330.29358-100000@kom25> <014701c0bdbb$203608c0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>

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"Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> writes:

> > > can somebody tell me why that doesn=B4t work in /etc/rc.conf ??
> > > after a reboot only the 1. ip (192.168.1.23) is working.
> > > -----------------------schnipp--------------------------------------
> > > ifconfig_fxp0=3D"inet 192.168.1.23 netmask 255.255.255.0"
> > > ifconfig_fpx0_alias0=3D"inet 192.168.1.216 netmask 255.255.255.0"
> > > ifconfig_fpx0_alias1=3D"inet 192.168.2.157 netmask 255.255.255.0"
>=20
> The last two should say fxp, not fpx, right?

:-)

And the mask should be 0xffffffff (255.255.255.255).  From
ifconfig(8):

     alias [...] If the address is on the same subnet as the first
           network address for this interface, a netmask of 0xffffffff
           has to be specified.

~kas

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