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To: David Ramahefason <rama@easynet.fr>
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Subject: Re: Virutal Interfaces how ?? 
Reply-To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 09:36:45 -0700
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On Fri, 11 Apr 1997 17:59:43 +0200 (MET DST) 
 David Ramahefason <rama@easynet.fr> wrote:

 > I've seen that aliasing on IP was allowed under FreeBSD,
 > but How do I specify the name of those Interfaces as on
 > Linux ??? de0:0-de0:1 etc....

You don't ... you simply do:

	ifconfig de0 alias xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

...and the new address is stashed in the interfaces address list.

(This is how it works under NetBSD, anyhow, and I wouldn't think FreeBSD
would be any different)

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