[TheContact]

So I'm fairly new to OS X, and I have 10.3 on my G4 15" PB. I'm trying to setup multiple IP addresses on my wireless network. This seems pretty simple with the Built-In Ethernet port, as all I need to do is duplicate the port and give it a different IP address. Unfortunately, for whatever bizzare reason, I can't duplicate the Airport port.

This has had me looking high and low for a solution. I've looked at possibly using /etc/iftab, however the file doesn't exist, and I'm not sure if creating it would do me any good.

Is my only other resort creating a script that runs ifconfig to create an alias on my en1 device (my internal airport)? If so, is there any "best place" to put such a script?

Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated Is there any reason why the airport port can't be duplicated? It seems rather arbitrary to limit that functionality to everything but the airport port, as I need to assign two different IP addresses to the same machine, and I don't want to plug it in.

[edit: /etc/iftab does not seem to work in Panther... d'oh]

[bzImage]

ifconfig en1 alias 10.1.1.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.1.1.255

[TheContact]

Thanks, I probably should have been more clear.

ifconfig works, but I lose the setting each time I restart. If ifconfig is the only way to set another IP address, is there a script file or /etc file I can edit to add either that statement or configuration so that another IP address is bound to en1 all the time?