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Date:      Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:51:06 +1100 (EST)
From:      "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To:        Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: additions to /etc/netstart
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970213224603.427K-100000@panda.hilink.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970213103515.joe@florence.pavilion.net>

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On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Josef Karthauser wrote:

> The following can then be added to /etc/sysconfig:
> ifconfig_de0="inet 194.242.128.25 -link2 netmask 255.255.255.192"
> ifconfig_lo0="inet localhost"
> 
> # joe/pavilion/19961121: IP alias addresses for each interface
> #       Multiple is allowed: network_aliases_XXX="194.193.24.2 194.193.24.4"
> #       XXX is replaced by the interface name, eg de0
> #
> # joe/pavilion/19970203: This machine is now the primary DNS.
> #
> network_aliases_de0="194.242.128.1"


Well, it does not seem to cater for people like me who have an entire 
Class C network aliased onto lo0.  I'm sure there are plenty of other 
ISPs running lots of VWS on a single machine.  Even when I exhaust the 
current class C net, I won't be putting in a new machine for the next 
lot, I'll just have 508 aliases instead of 254.  I certainly don't fancy 
a line
network_aliases_lo0="{insert many lines of IP addresses here} "

in /etc/sysconfig.

How about a scheme whereby the aliases are read from /etc/ip.aliases.lo0

Danny



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