Odd. I'm no guru, so it may just be my lack of understanding... I had this in my rc.config file to setup an alias on a NIC:
ifconfig_xl0="inet 192.168.20.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_xl0_alias0="inet 192.168.20.3 netmask 255.255.255.255" And the alias'd address would NOT load at boot time. Couldn't get it to work. But when I changed it to this, it worked just fine: ifconfig_xl0="inet 192.168.20.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_xl0_alias0="alias 192.168.20.3 netmask 255.255.255.255" The ifconfig command wouldn't work either until I replaced alias with inet on the command line. Am I just missing something else? FYI: # uname -a FreeBSD ns2.atgi.com 4.9-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p1 #0: Fri Dec 5 15:13:58 EST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NS2 i386 later, jason -----Original Message----- From: Chris Hodgins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 11:39 AM To: Jerry McAllister Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jason D. Montgomery Subject: Re: Documentation Error? Jerry McAllister wrote: >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/confi >>>gtuning-v irtual-hosts.html >>> >>>states that adding a virtual address is done in rc.conf like this: >>> >>>ifconfig_fxp0="inet 10.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" >>>ifconfig_fxp0_alias0="inet 10.1.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.255" >>> >>>Shouldn't it be this instead? >>> >>>ifconfig_fxp0="inet 10.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" >>>ifconfig_fxp0_alias0="alias 10.1.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.255" >> >>No. The actual command to make one is: >> >>ifconfig fxp0 inet 10.1.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias >> >>So you do need to pass the "inet" to ifconfig. The _alias0 makes >>the script pass the trailing "alias" > > > Hmmmm, So what is happening when no 'inet' is in the string? > It seems to work fine. Is something still not right and just > waiting to explode? We have lots of servers configured that way. > > ////jerry > > >>Ted >> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > man rc.conf and search for "network_interfaces". The reason it still works is that if you do a simple test with your ifconfig both: ifconfig wi0 192.168.0.6 ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.0.6 ....work as you would expect. HTH Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
