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Date:      Thu, 13 Feb 1997 23:07:24 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Roland Krocin <roland@netchicago.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Virtual IPs
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970213230632.612b-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <33033C6E.72F7@netchicago.net>

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On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Roland Krocin wrote:

> 	I'm using FBSD 2.1.6 and a 3Com590 NIC. What is the proper syntax for
> adding IP's to an interface? This is my current portion of sysconfig,
> 
> network_interfaces="vx0 lo0"
> ifconfig_vx0="inet 205.164.13.80  netmask 255.255.255.0"
> ifconfig_lo0="inet localhost"
> 
> so if I would want to put another IP on vx0, can I just say
> 
> ifconfig_vx0="inet another.ip.goes.here  netmask another.ips.net.mask"
> 
> or do I need to do something like
> 
> ifconfig_vx0_somealias=...

The way seems to be to put a construct inside of /etc/rc.local running
ifconfig in sequence, adding the ips.

ifconfig vx0 xxx.yyy.zzz.qqq alias
ifconfig vx0 aaa.bbb.cc.dd alias
...

Check the mail archives, multiple ways exist.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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