At 9:24 PM -0500 2/11/03, Erik Osheim wrote:
>Hi again,
>
>As long as I'm emailing the list about the mc0 interface, I should 
>ask about a problem that's stumped me for a couple of days.
>
>I need to use aliasing with my internal interface; I can set it up 
>manually and it works great. I'd like to set both the actual IP and 
>the aliased IP on startup using the /etc/ifconfig.rtk1 file. 
>However, so far I haven't been able to get it to work. I remember 
>doing something like this awhile ago, but the syntax has escaped me.
>
>I've naively tried something like this in the file:
>
>--
>inet 1.2.3.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 1.2.3.255
>alias 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 192.168.255.255
>--
>
>but this doesn't work (it sets up the first IP, but doesn't do any 
>aliasing). I tried adding a semicolon-- no luck there either. I 
>tried putting it all on one line, but this doesn't work with the 
>actual command, so of course it didn't work in the file (didn't even 
>set up the 1st IP). If I do this from the commandline as two 
>ifconfig commands everything is peachy.
>
>The manpage doesn't have any info on this and I'm not sure what to 
>search under on the net... anyone know how to do this?

create /etc/ifaliases, and in it, put:
192.168.0.1 rtk1 255.255.0.0

HTH
Mike
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