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Date:      Thu, 10 Oct 1996 15:38:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        "Eric J. Chet" <ejc@gargoyle.bazzle.com>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: IP ALIASING 
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.961010153711.29956B-100000@spirit.ki.net>
In-Reply-To: <493.844973753@time.cdrom.com>

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On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > Hello
> > 	Why does this not work with ppp0 under -current?
> > 
> > >ifconfig ppp0 alias 206.103.246.162 netmask 0xffffffff
> > >ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Destination address required
> 
> Because it's not the correct syntax for an ifconfig command? ;-)
> 
> If you read the man page, you'll see that alias is a parameter and, as
> such, must follow the address, not precede it.
>

Ummm, I've been using this under 2.2-Current for the past 6months, without
any problems:

ifconfig ed0 alias 205.150.102.63 netmask 255.255.255.255

Marc G. Fournier                                  scrappy@ki.net
Systems Administrator @ ki.net               scrappy@freebsd.org




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