From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 13 03:45:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA04874 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 03:45:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA04869 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 03:45:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.7.6/8.7.3) id WAA13961; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:51:06 +1100 (EST) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:51:06 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: Josef Karthauser cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: additions to /etc/netstart In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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