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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 09:26:01 +1100
From: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
To: "SysAdmin for paxlink.com" <jmonroy@paxlink.com>
Cc: bugs@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: reboot problem with alias IP
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On Feb 02, 1997 at 04:38:23AM, SysAdmin for paxlink.com wrote:
>         network_interfaces="ed1 lo0"
>         ifconfig_ed1="inet 207.155.58.2  netmask 255.255.255.0"
>         ifconfig_ed1="inet 207.155.58.20  alias"

Aside from the missing netmask 0xffffffff already pointed out,
there is another problem here.

"ifconfig_ed1" is a shell variable. The second line sets it to
one value, and the third line overwrites it with another. In
other words, the first ifconfig_ed1 will never be executed,
so what /etc/netstart does is attempt to execute the second
only - I'm not surprised that it hung.

In 2.2 and above, this is the sort of thing you need to do:

network_interfaces="ed1 lo0"
ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1"
ifconfig_ed1="inet 207.155.58.2 netmask 0xffffff00"
ifconfig_ed1_alias0="inet 207.155.58.20 netmask 0xffffffff"

With older versions of /etc/netstart, I usually manually add
the alias commands to the end of that script, unless I could
be bothered modifying it and adding the alias logic from
later versions.


Regards,

David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
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