Documentation Error?
Chris Hodgins
chodgins at cis.strath.ac.uk
Tue Mar 1 16:33:48 GMT 2005
Jerry McAllister wrote:
>>owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 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
>>
>
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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
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