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Date:      Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:55:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
Cc:        Graham Wheeler <gram@cequrux.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: aliasing a point-to-point interface
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910220854140.273-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <19991021202957.C83927@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>

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What exactly are you trrying to achieve..?

I think I missed the mail that stated what the goal was..


On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 06:50:07PM +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > Is it possible to assign an IP alias to a point to point interface (in my case,
> > a sync PPP interface)? It doesn't seem to be possible, but perhaps I'm
> > missing something...
> 
> Yup, that's possible but is somewhat tricky:
> 
> # ifconfig ptpN inet X.X.X.X X.X.X.X alias
> # route delete -host X.X.X.X
> # route add -host X.X.X.X -gateway 127.1
> # ping X.X.X.X
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA of the
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