Adding new IP's without reboot?

[Rus Foster]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Ben Dover wrote:

> Is there a way to add new IP’s to a FreeBSD 4.9 or 5.1 box without
> rebooting.  I add them to /etc/rc.conf but they are not effective until a
> reboot.  There are some webhosting assistant programs which allow instant
> use of IP’s with *nix and I was hoping there was a way to do this in FBSD.
>

Hi,
You can use something similar to the following

ifconfig vr0 alias 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00

Rus

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