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HEADS UP: Network Interface Aliasing


From: Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:52:11 +0000

Gang,

I have committed the remaining parts of the network interface aliasing functionality from FreeBSD which were missed when the kernel part of the if_xname was committed.

In order to configure an alias for your fxp* cards, for example:

	# ifconfig fxp0 name 'LAN'
	# ifconfig fxp1 name 'WAN'

You should now be able to refer to them as LAN and WAN, both valid names pointing to fxp0 and fxp1. Note, by issuing the name command, the IF is only gets an alias, fxpN will stay fxpN, the new `name' is *only* an
alias.


Hope that helps, and enjoy. :-)

Cheers.

	-Hiten
	Hiten Pandya
	hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx || hmp@xxxxxxxxxxx




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