From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 9 14:32:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F173A37B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 14:32:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postoffice.igalaxy.net (hal.igalaxy.net [64.160.104.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9862843E4A for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 14:32:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikeyg@igalaxy.net) Received: from mikeyg [64.160.106.13] by postoffice.igalaxy.net (SMTPD32-7.07) id A22FA3A00D2; Wed, 09 Oct 2002 14:39:59 -0700 Message-ID: <08b601c26fdb$6bb80c20$0301a8c0@mikeyg> Reply-To: "Mike Grissom" From: "Mike Grissom" To: "Matthew Emmerton" Cc: References: <08a101c26fd9$e29c0fa0$0301a8c0@mikeyg> <025801c26fda$d2de68a0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Subject: Re: Ifconfig Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 14:32:50 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG So basically if the aliases are subnets, then it will let me add them with no problem. Also will it add an entry into the routing table? I am going to have a firewall/gateway and all the hosts behind it will be on their own subnets and the firewall will be doing the internal routing. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Mike Grissom" ; Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 2:28 PM Subject: Re: Ifconfig > > > > I was wondering if ifconfig will let you add aliases with different > netmasks > > cause I noticed that ifconfig enforces netmask 255.255.255.255 for > aliases. > > Does this only apply if the ips are on the same network? > > If network = subnet, then yes. > > -- > Matt Emmerton > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message