[gonufer at yahoo.com: Re: [SunHELP] ethernet aliases]

[Will Yardley]

this was _exactly_ the answer i was looking for, so i'm forwarding it as
a fyi.

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From: Greg <gonufer at yahoo.com>
To: Will Yardley <william at hq.newdream.net>
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] ethernet aliases
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 23:29:22 -0800
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On 12/14/01 03:36 PM, Will Yardley wrote:

>yup - that was my fallback plan if i couldn't figure out a simpler way.
>just surprising there's no way to add aliases in one of the flat
>configuration files.   i will just go ahead and edit the startup
>scripts.


Why not just:

	echo xxx.yyy.zzz.www > /etc/hostname.le0:1

?

There's no need to edit the Sun-supplied startup scripts, any changes 
may get overwritten via patching or upgrading.

-greg



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