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Date:      Tue, 06 May 1997 10:37:17 +0300
From:      Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To:        Daniel Zborovski <daniel@moonlighting.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Multiple Ip's on one Ethernet
Message-ID:  <336EDFAD.7D52@barcode.co.il>
References:  <336E1393.6708@moonlighting.net>

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Daniel Zborovski wrote:
> 
> When I enter the command to get more than one IP on my ethernet card :
> ifconfig ed1 alias 207.107.140.243 netmask 255.255.255.224
> 
>         It comes back with the message:
> ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File Exists
> 
>         But I still can't ping 207.107.140.243
> 
> Thanks alot in advance
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> |Daniel Zborovski            | daniel@moonlighting.net     |
> |Network Administartor       |                             |
> |Moonlighting Web Management | http://www.moonlighting.net |
> ------------------------------------------------------------
If it's on the same network asthe primary address, use a netmask of all
1's (i.e. 255.255.255.255). If not, you'll have to modify the routing
table too. Look in the archives. There have been countless discussions
of this issue here.

Nadav



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