At 3:33 PM +0000 11/1/01, Steve Linford imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: >From Bill Cole, received 1/11/01, 8:18 am -0500 (GMT): >> At 10:57 AM +0000 10/31/01, Steve Linford imposed structure on a >> stream of electrons, yielding: >>>From Cerebus the Aardvark, received 30/10/01, 10:49 pm -0700 (GMT): >>>> and tell your OS X box >>>> to use a second internal IP. >>> >>>Aha! Somebody knows how to do this then... please could you tell me >>>as I haven't working it out yet. >> >> ifconfig doesn't work? >> >> I admit to not using X much yet because I haven't had time to work >> out some networking details I need here, but I'd be really surprised >> if you can't just toss another virtual interface in as you can with >> (almost) any other Unix > >Trouble is, to me unix is all chinese (I have CommuniGate Pro >running on OSX but only by miracle). It's not just me understanding >what 'ifconfig' is, I'm trying to understand where/how one gets to >it and what one does when one gets to it... (I assume it a terminal >thing)
yes, but it's not hard. Get a terminal window open and type "man ifconfig" for details. The hard part on MacOSX is likely to be getting a secondary IP to come up automatically at boot time. Every Unix is different: on Solaris you just drop a hostname into /etc/hostname.hme0:1 and make a new entry in /etc/hosts, and on the next boot the init scripts will do the ifconfig of hme0:1 for you. On Slackware Linux, there is (or was, last I used it) a single file somewhere under /etc that listed all the interface->IP mappings. ISTR that RedHat used something different. Where MacOSX does this, I'm not really sure. Probably inside /System somewhere... -- Bill Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
