Hello All,
 I was looking to see if someone could shed some light on an rc.conf 
issue. How do you properly add aliased IPs .  The rc.conf way does not 
appear to work for me. I am using a fxp card .


The NetBSD rc.conf way

ifaliases_${INTERFACE}="${ALIASED_IP} netmask -"


/etc/rc.d/network has the following comment . This is the only issue i 
can find, but I wanted to know more.

       # Check if each configured interface xxN has an $ifaliases_xxN 
variable
       # associated, then configure additional IP addresses for that 
interface.
       # The variable contains a list of "address netmask" pairs, with
       # "netmask" set to "-" if the interface default netmask is to be 
used.
       #
       # Note that $ifaliases_xxN works only with certain configurations 
and
       # considered not recommended.  Use /etc/ifconfig.xxN if possible.

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Mark Saad
nonesuch@bad-apples.org