Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 08:21:52 +0100 (MET) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: *** HELP! ifconfig aliases!? *** Message-ID: <199512040721.IAA09236@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199512031414.PAA02443@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Dec 3, 95 03:14:29 pm
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J Wunsch writes: > > As Ollivier Robert wrote: > > > > It seems that Robert Shady said: > > > sites on it. Doing the standard "ifconfig ed0 alias a.b.c.d" didn't > > > work, and neither did "ifconfig ed0 alias a.b.c.d netmask 255.255.255.0" > > > > Use netmask 0xffffffff for aliases. > > ...but only if they are in the same (sub)net as the primary address. OK, I'll bite: why? I thought aliases were just an alternative address, and that they were subject to the same constraints as the primary address. Greg
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