Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 11:55:44 -0500 From: "Jason D. Montgomery" <jason@atgi.com> To: "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Subject: RE: Documentation Error? Message-ID: <5C6F478A90E6034BBDCF6D754D7850BC66F12D@DERRIDA.atgi.com>
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Odd. I'm no guru, so it may just be my lack of understanding... I had this in my rc.config file to setup an alias on a NIC: ifconfig_xl0=3D"inet 192.168.20.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_xl0_alias0=3D"inet 192.168.20.3 netmask 255.255.255.255" And the alias'd address would NOT load at boot time. Couldn't get it to work. But when I changed it to this, it worked just fine: ifconfig_xl0=3D"inet 192.168.20.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_xl0_alias0=3D"alias 192.168.20.3 netmask 255.255.255.255" The ifconfig command wouldn't work either until I replaced alias with inet on the command line.=20 Am I just missing something else? FYI: # uname -a FreeBSD ns2.atgi.com 4.9-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p1 #0: Fri Dec 5 15:13:58 EST 2003 root@ns2.atgi.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NS2 i386 later, jason -----Original Message----- From: Chris Hodgins [mailto:chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk]=20 Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 11:39 AM To: Jerry McAllister Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; questions@freebsd.org; Jason D. Montgomery Subject: Re: Documentation Error? Jerry McAllister wrote: >>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=3D"inet 10.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" >>>ifconfig_fxp0_alias0=3D"inet 10.1.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.255" >>> >>>Shouldn't it be this instead? >>> >>>ifconfig_fxp0=3D"inet 10.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" >>>ifconfig_fxp0_alias0=3D"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" >=20 >=20 > 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. >=20 > ////jerry >=20 >=20 >>Ted >> >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 man rc.conf and search for "network_interfaces". The reason it still=20 works is that if you do a simple test with your ifconfig both: ifconfig wi0 192.168.0.6 ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.0.6 ....work as you would expect. HTH Chris
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