From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 4 01:05:49 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA11653 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 01:05:49 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA11293 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 01:01:56 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA15976 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 10:01:41 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA25762 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 10:01:41 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA07653 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 09:07:12 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512040807.JAA07653@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: *** HELP! ifconfig aliases!? *** To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 09:07:12 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199512040721.IAA09236@allegro.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Dec 4, 95 08:21:52 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 436 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > Use netmask 0xffffffff for aliases. > > > > ...but only if they are in the same (sub)net as the primary address. > > OK, I'll bite: why? Since a packet cannot be sent from multiple addresses. An outgoing packet needs one distinct address. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)