Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:34:27 -0800 (PST) From: "Amandeep Pannu" <aman@chamkila.org> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Amandeep Pannu <aman@chamkila.org> Subject: Re: Freebsd 5.0 NICs issue Message-ID: <41763.69.36.228.194.1111167267.squirrel@69.36.228.194> In-Reply-To: <200503181647.26346.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <44497.69.36.228.194.1110474073.squirrel@69.36.228.194> <20050316221046.GA75292@unixpages.org> <53000.69.36.228.194.1111090664.squirrel@69.36.228.194> <200503181647.26346.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Hi daniel, Josseph in this mailing list responded that I can do ifconfig em1 alias inet 205.229.165.8 netmask 255.255.255.255 Can I? I need the other NIC for some internal operations. > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 06:47, Amandeep Pannu wrote: >> Now the em0 nic is up with 205.229.165.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 >> ifconfig em1 inet 205.229.165.8 netmask 255.255.255.0 up > > You can't have 2 NIC's on the same subnet (you can't have 2 IPs on any NIC > in > the same subnet). > > Why do you want to do this? If you want an alias you only need 1 NIC and > you > do.. > > ifconfig em0 inet 205.229.165.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 > ifconfig em0 alias inet 205.229.165.8 netmask 255.255.255.255 > > What is the second NIC going to be used for? > > -- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum > GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C > -- Amandeep.S aman@chamkila.org http://aman.chamkila.org
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