[SunHELP] ethernet aliases

[Kevin Reichhart]

assuming that your physical interface is already working at boot time and is
hme0:

ifconfig hme0:1 plumb
ifconfig hme0:1 <ip address> [netmask <subnet mask>] [broadcast <broadcast
address>]

to get this to come up automatically at boot time:

echo "<hostname>" > /etc/hostname.hme0:1

add an entry to your hosts file for the hostname of the virtual interface
and it's ip address
reboot
ifconfig -a to make sure everything came up ok.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bret Adams [mailto:bret at fabrikant.com]
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 6:01 PM
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] ethernet aliases


The ifconfig man page gave me this:

To assign multiple logical interfaces you have to first plumb the physical 
interface:
ifconfig le0 plumb   (for example)
This opens up the physical interface for TCP/IP streams.  IF this has 
already been done, go on to add your logical interfaces.
ifconfig le0:1 [ip address] [netmask] [parameters]  for the first logical 
interface
ifconfig le1:2 [ip address].....etc....etc  for the 2nd interface and so 
on. I dont know the limit on how many logical interfaces you can have.

Now as to startup I am sure you can use a script in one of the rc#.d 
directories to set up the ifconfig commands.  I dont know if it has to be 
system generated or if it exists already or if you have to make it.


At 02:23 PM 12/14/01 -0800, you wrote:
>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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