Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:50:02 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Christian Kratzer <ck@cksoft.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig alias: File Exists Message-ID: <20041019164943.Y98762@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20041019214157.Y88138@vesihiisi.cksoft.de> References: <20041019162521.N98762@ganymede.hub.org> <20041019214157.Y88138@vesihiisi.cksoft.de>
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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Christian Kratzer wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >> >> Why would I be getting: >> >> # ifconfig fxp0 alias 200.46.204.9 >> ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists >> >> when I know for a fact that it hasn't been configured? > > you should use a netmask of 255.255.255.255 for ipv4 aliases. > > ifconfig fxp0 alias 200.46.204.9 netmask 255.255.255.255 Is that new? You are right, that fixed it, but didn't think I had to do that before :( Thanks ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
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