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From: Tobias Fredriksson <c4@worldclass.jolt.nu>
To: Jonathan Graehl <jonathan@graehl.org>
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Subject: RE: Quick question about IP aliasing
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yeah and thats the reason for the 'or' in that sentance...

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Jonathan Graehl wrote:

> > do 'netmask 255.255.255.255' instead or 'netmask 0xffffffff' since this is
> > an alias... for some reason otherwise services may not bind to the ip
> > correctly
> 
> Why would this be?  The two are numerically equivalent.
> 
> -Jon
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