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Date:      Mon, 21 Sep 1998 14:28:04 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Graham Wheeler <gram@cdsec.com>
To:        ru@ucb.crimea.ua (Ruslan Ermilov)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ifconfig alias weirdness
Message-ID:  <199809211228.OAA04370@cdsec.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980921142357.A1023@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> from "Ruslan Ermilov" at Sep 21, 98 02:23:57 pm

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> Are you sure it is equal 26? if you use 255.255.255.240, it should be 28.

Sorry, a typo. 28 is correct.

> In your specific case, when you want an alias from an already defined
> subnet, you should specify netmask as 255.255.255.255:
> 
> ifconfig ed0 inet 196.37.78.99 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias

Aha! Thanks!

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