Mac OS-X Multihoming & QuickDNS Pro 3.5

Re: Mac OS-X Multihoming & QuickDNS Pro 3.5

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On 9/5/01 4:07 PM, The Defendant "Men & Mice Support"
<cbuxton@menandmice.com> Confessed:

>> I opened case number 9524863 with Apple Care, but they said the Advanced
>> Features of the Network Systems Preference are not supported by Apple.
>
> That's right, because they know that it doesn't work right. You can't
> set up multiple IP addresses in the Network applet of System
> Preferences and have it work. It can be done on the command line, or
> it can be done using scripts in '/System/Library/StartupItems'.
>
> I haven't done this myself, so I won't provide explicit instructions
> - this is Apple's problem, not M&M's - but it involves use of
> 'ifconfig', somewhere, somehow. I would probably use the StartupItems
> scripts, myself. You could even create a new startup item, using
> BBEdit (or any other text editor). Just make sure it gets scheduled
> to execute before QuickDNS.

How do you write a user manual, in which every step is absolutely wrong?
Did they write the manual before they made the GUI?

Here's how I got multihoming working on OSXS 2:

I edited /System/Library/StartupItems/Network/Network

And added:

#!/bin/sh
##
# Workaround for temporary Mac OS X Server bug by 'manually'
# running ifconfig, downing en0, adding IP aliases to the interface
# then bringing it back up.
# Make sure to remove this directory if the bug has been fixed in future
# software updates, and use at your own risk.
##

. /etc/rc.common

ConsoleMessage "Setting extra IP addresses"

ifconfig en0 222.222.222.4 netmask 255.255.255.0
ifconfig en0 alias 222.222.222.5 netmask 255.255.255.255
ifconfig en0 alias 222.222.222.6 netmask 255.255.255.255

To the end of the file. (I've replaced my real Ip's with 2's)

hth

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