Creating multiple IPs

[Colin Alston]

Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:40:07AM -0500, Erik Sliman wrote:
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>>Thank you. That worked. I read all the documentation I could find, which 
>>was very little. Basic networking requirements like this should be in 
>>the FreeBSD Manual. rc.conf man pages gave no examples, and differed 
>>from one version to another quite a bit.
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>This is not true.  Search for the first word "alias" in the rc.conf(5)
>manpage.
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>Cheers,
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The hint here being the netmask, about which the documentation is a 
little vague on the reasoning IMHO, which seems to trip up alot of 
people. Other operating systems cater for aliases with a bit more 
automata from what I've seen, not that this is a good thing.