On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 06:50:07PM +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > Is it possible to assign an IP alias to a point to point interface (in my case,
> > a sync PPP interface)? It doesn't seem to be possible, but perhaps I'm
> > missing something...
>
> Yup, that's possible but is somewhat tricky:
>
> # ifconfig ptpN inet X.X.X.X X.X.X.X alias
> # route delete -host X.X.X.X
> # route add -host X.X.X.X -gateway 127.1
> # ping X.X.X.X
I should have mentioned that ip forwarding is turned off so that routing
via the loopback interface is not an option...
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