[SunHELP] ethernet aliases

Mon Dec 17 07:06:07 CST 2001

If you want them to be permanent, create a startup script that creates the
interfaces and routes at boot up.  We put the script in /etc/rc2.d.  Here is
an example:

As root:
# vi S82ipinit
# This sets the IP, netmask and broadcast address for interface hme0:1
/usr/sbin/ifconfig hme0:1 10.253.0.1 netmask 0xffffc000 broadcast
10.253.63.255 up
# This adds the route for the interface.
/usr/sbin/route add net   172.16.4.0    10.253.0.254  1

This brings up hme0:1 at boot up and creates the route for it.  If using
Solaris 8, you may also want to add the netmask to the /etc/netmask file.

Hope this helps.

-----Original Message-----
From: Will Yardley [mailto:william+sun at hq.newdream.net]
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 5:24 PM
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] ethernet aliases

Bret Adams wrote:

> I thought you can also use tcpconfig to make permanent changes.  I
> know with tcpconfig you lose some options that are available with
> ifconfig but mostly related to debugging.

is this on solaris 8?  i don't see it:
bacall [~]% which tcpconfig
tcpconfig not found
bacall [~]% locate tcpconfig
bacall [~]% uname -sr
SunOS 5.8

anyway all i want to do is to add additional IP addresses which will
come up when the machine is rebooted.

seems like this shouldn't be difficult to do.....

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