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From: "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx>
To: "Roelof Osinga" <roelof@nisser.com>
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Subject: RE: ARP message flood
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 09:58:01 -0500
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Hi,

    You shouldnt disable ARP Protocol this is a bad idea, in the case that
you want to have an static route, you use the "route add" command see "man
route".

Ales

----- Original Message -----
From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com>
To: Alejandro Ramirez <ales@megared.net.mx>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 1999 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: ARP message flood


> Alejandro Ramirez wrote:
> >
> > > ifconfig_ep1_alias0="inet 194.134.130.170 194.134.128.1 netmask
> > 255.255.252.0"
> >
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^
> > This shouldnt be here, your line should look like this:
> >
> > ifconfig_ep1_alias0="inet 194.134.130.170 netmask 255.255.252.0"
>
>
> Tx, but... Why? The manpage doesn't say anything like that. To wit:
>
> SYNOPSIS
>      ifconfig interface address_family [address [dest_address]]
[parameters]
>
>      dest_address
>              Specify the address of the correspondent on the other end of
a
>              point to point link.
>
>      The following parameters may be set with ifconfig:
>
>      alias   Establish an additional network address for this interface.
This
>              is sometimes useful when changing network numbers, and one
wishes
>              to accept packets addressed to the old interface.
>
>      netmask mask
>              (Inet only) Specify how much of the address to reserve for
subdi-
>              viding networks into sub-networks.  The mask includes the
network
>              ...
>
> Also, it works as advertised. It's only the ARP messages I could do
without.
> Well, that and a working static route through the aliassed IP <g>.
>
> Furthermore, if I take the destination address out it does not work. At
> least I do remember being forced to muck about till it worked.
>
> If anything I believe I should add yet another parameter as in:
>
>      -arp    Disable the use of the Address Resolution Protocol.
>
> However, since this is mostly uncharted territory for me I thought I'd
> better ask first <g>.
>
> Roelof
>
> --
> Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is.




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