Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (146 mails)

[Dave Williams <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Well that sounds ideal but how do I perform aliasing?

> Depends on your system, probably, but on our FreeBSD it's by the use of

>   ifconfig_<interface>_alias=" ... "

> entries in the rc.conf file: ours are for example:

>   ifconfig_fxp0="inet 10.10.128.254 netmask 0xffff0000"
>   ifconfig_fxp0_alias0="inet 194.238.175.254 netmask 0xffffffc0"
>   ifconfig_fxp0_alias1="inet 10.0.128.254 netmask 0xffffff00"

> [beware, on our system extra spaces, eg either side of the =,
>  will mess things up]

> and the result from an "ifconfig -a" command is

> fxp0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>        inet 10.10.128.254 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 10.10.255.255
>        inet 194.238.175.254 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 194.238.175.255
>        inet 10.0.128.254 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.128.255
>        atalk 1280.185 range 1280-1289 phase 2 broadcast 0.255
>        ether 00:a0:c9:45:b9:14

>   [the machine runs the appletalk daemon as well]

> and it's probably a good idea to set "gateway_enable" to YES as well.

Thanks Chris - I'm using SuSE - anyone know the equivalent commands to the
ones above? On the man page for ifconfig the only mention of alias
addressing refers to ipchains?

Dave