Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:20:30 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Jason D. Montgomery" <jason@atgi.com>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Documentation Error? Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNIEJEFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <5C6F478A90E6034BBDCF6D754D7850BC66F118@DERRIDA.atgi.com>
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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" Ted
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