On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:02:09 -0500, James W. McKeand <james at mckeand dot biz> wrote:
> Travis Zadikem wrote:
> > I already had the ip address in the Server NAT screen and and also
> the
> > inbound NAT screen and rules screen.  But, none of this worked until
> > I did the command that Robert Staph gave me to do on the exec.php
> > page. /sbin/ifconfig xl2 64.207.38.4 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias
> > which now works with what I had, but when you reboot the machine the
> > above goes away and you have to add it again.  Any ideas on how to
> > get it to stick??
> 
> AFAIK, nothing ran from the exec.php page will persist across reboots.
> There is the hidden config.xml options, earlyshellcmd and shellcmd.
> Take a look at: http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/docbook/faq-hiddenopts.html
> 

That's the appropriate way to get them back at every boot, but I would
recommend against adding aliases simply because that's not how the
system is designed.


> But, not to beat a dead horse, but I do have a question. Did you need
> to add the IP to the Proxy ARP page? From the Proxy ARP page:
> 

Proxy ARP is my guess as well.  

-Chris