Erik Rungi <rungus@openface.ca>  wrote:
 > On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Markus Illenseer wrote:
 > > >  ifconfig ed2 alias wwwtest.fqdn.de
 > >
 > >  This works, Jukka Marin gave me the "final" hint. It is not possible
 > > to ping the alias-ed IP from the same host, from outside the same host,
 > > you can access the new virtual address just fine.
 > 
 > I get around this by doing a "route add wwwtest.fqdn.de 127.0.0.1".

or:

ifconfig ep0 alias 1.2.3.4 netmask 255.255.255.255