From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 5 10:21:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gtw.net (mail.gtw.net [208.33.253.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 261B937C35A for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 10:21:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@day-light.com) Received: (qmail 409 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2000 17:20:46 -0000 Received: from 28.pm3.gtw.net (HELO w1) (63.161.82.28) by mail.gtw.net with SMTP; 5 Jun 2000 17:20:46 -0000 Reply-To: From: "John Brooks" To: , Subject: RE: HELP ifconfig -alias Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 12:17:23 -0500 Message-ID: <000b01bfcf11$f385f760$0b00a8c0@dle> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG try something like this in your rc.conf: ifconfig_xl0_alias5="inet 63.169.99.15 netmask 255.255.255.0" # first alias ifconfig_xl0_alias6="inet 63.169.99.15 netmask 255.255.255.0" # second alias ifconfig_xl0_alias7="inet 63.169.99.15 netmask 255.255.255.0" # third alias etc... John > > > I've tried all morning to alias an IP on the nic of a machine and have > done it the way I've always done it. For some reson it won't > work though. > Does anyone have a clue as to why I would get this > > # ifconfig xl0 inet 63.169.99.15 -alias > ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can't assign requested address > # > > I'm at my whits end here. > > Thank you. > > Keith > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message