Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 11:26:57 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: xaa@stack.urc.tue.nl Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: ifconfig aliases... Message-ID: <9606171526.AA00981@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199606171320.PAA02324@xaa.stack.urc.tue.nl> References: <199606171320.PAA02324@xaa.stack.urc.tue.nl>
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<<On Mon, 17 Jun 1996 15:20:20 +0200 (MET DST), Mark Huizer <xaa@xaa.stack.urc.tue.nl> said: > If I use an alias with ifconfig, what name of the many will other > machines choose as originating hosts for telnet etc... > or: what ip-address is used in tcp-connection originating at the aliased > machine?? Whichever one ends up getting associated with the route to the destination. Usually this will be the first address configured on the interface to which that route points. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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