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Date:      Sun, 3 Dec 1995 15:14:29 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        rls@kilroy.id.net
Subject:   Re: *** HELP! ifconfig aliases!? ***
Message-ID:  <199512031414.PAA02443@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199511300607.HAA05091@keltia.freenix.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Nov 30, 95 07:07:52 am

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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.

-- 
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. ;-)



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