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Re: Multiple IP addresses on a Mac mini?

At 11:34 AM -0400 6/6/07, Jaime Magiera wrote: 
 Command Line: Use ifconfig (man ifconfig) along the lines of

	ifconfig en0 inet 123.456.789.666 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias

...Where "en0" is the interface and "123.456.789.666" is the new IP number you want to add to the interface. You might want to run ifconfig without options once to get a sense of how it works.

This is *extremely* ill-advised as it will not last beyond the next configd event. That is the system won't have it in the configuration db and the moment some event happens like a network segment bounce or any system event where the db is reloaded, well your IP Alias won't be there so it will just go *poof* in a flash of black greasy smoke (tm).

The better "alternative" is  /etc/IPAliases.conf
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-dhan

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