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To: tedm@toybox.placo.com (Ted Mittelstaedt)
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> 
> owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/confi
> > gtuning-v irtual-hosts.html
> > 
> > states that adding a virtual address is done in rc.conf like this:
> > 
> > ifconfig_fxp0="inet 10.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0"
> > ifconfig_fxp0_alias0="inet 10.1.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.255"
> > 
> > Shouldn't it be this instead?
> > 
> > ifconfig_fxp0="inet 10.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0"
> > ifconfig_fxp0_alias0="alias 10.1.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.255"
> 
> No.  The actual command to make one is:
> 
> ifconfig fxp0 inet 10.1.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias
> 
> So you do need to pass the "inet" to ifconfig.  The _alias0 makes
> the script pass the trailing "alias"

Hmmmm,   So what is happening when no 'inet' is in the string?
It seems to work fine.    Is something still not right and just
waiting to explode?    We have lots of servers configured that way.

////jerry

> 
> Ted
>