Multiple static IPs

[Jim Dixon]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Erik Sliman wrote:

> How do you give a computer multiple static IPs?
>
> I've tried many things, including the ifaliases setting in rc.conf:
>
>     ifconfig_vr0="inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.0"
>     ifaliases_vr0="192.168.1.36 255.255.255.0"
>
> but none seem to work.

It would help to know what kind of computer ;-)

On FreeBSD, as I recall, the syntax is

    ifconfig vr0 inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.0
    ifconfig vr0 inet 192.168.2.254 netmask 255.255.255.0 alias

If you then do a
    ifconfig vr0
it will list all of the active aliases.

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