vimage and ipv4 addresses

[Ernie Luzar]

Ben Woods wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 at 6:22 am, Ernie Luzar <luzar722 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:luzar722 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Testing RELEASE 11.0 vimage. Using the bridge/epair method to configure
>     network access for vnet jails. Issuing "ifconfig epairXb ipv4-address"
>     command. A single ip address works fine, but if I say
>     10.0.10.2,10.10.10.3 I get error saying "bad value" If I issue the
>     ifconfig command two times, once using each ip address then only the
>     last ip address issued shows on the  epairxb ifconfig list in the vnet
>     jail. Is this telling me that a vnet jail can only have a single ipv4 ip
>     address? Is the syntax of the command incorrect?
> 
>     On the other hand doing basically the same thing with ipv6 does not work
>     that way. If I issue "ifconfig epairXb int6 ipv6-address" using a single
>     ipv6 ip address it works fine, but if I say fc00::2,fc00::3 I get error
>     saying "bad value" If I issue the ifconfig command two times, once using
>     each ip address then both ipv6 address issued shows on the epairxb
>     ifconfig list in the vnet jail.
> 
>     Any input greatly appreciated
> 
> 
> 
> I believe you need to use the alias keyword to set multiple ip addresses 
> on an interface.
> 
> See this handbook article on how to set it in /etc/rc.conf
> 
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/configtuning-virtual-hosts.html
> 
> 
> See the ifconfig(8) man page for how to set it on the fly:
> 
> http://man.freebsd.org/ifconfig
> 
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> -Ben

Thanks that was the solution. First ipv4 address without alias and the 
remaining ipv4 addresses as an alias. This also works for ipv6.