Subject: Re: IP aliasing
To: Emre Yildirim <emre.yildirim@us.army.mil>
From: Caffeinate The World <mochaexpress@yahoo.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/15/2001 06:08:20
--- Emre Yildirim <emre.yildirim@us.army.mil> wrote:
> On Thursday 15 March 2001 07:58 US Central Time, Jussi Hamalainen 
> wrote:
> 
> > You can add aliases to an interface with ifconfig <if> alias <ip>.
> 
> cool, that's it?  Is there a way to alias them on bootup, or do I 
> need to write a script or something?

this is what i have in mine:

# cat /etc/ifconfig.de0
23.206.86.53 netmask 0xfffffff8 media 100baseTX
23.206.86.55 netmask 0xffffffff alias

one thing that i've found that was strange was that the netmask for the
alias as to be 255.255.255.255 or as with the hex above. 

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