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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:39:44 +0100 (CET)
From:      Tobias Fredriksson <c4@worldclass.jolt.nu>
To:        "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <drwilco@drwilco.nl>
Cc:        "Drew J. Weaver" <drew.weaver@thenap.com>, "'freebsd-net@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Quick question about IP aliasing
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102272038370.36650-100000@worldclass.jolt.nu>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20010227012505.00c6b340@mail.bsdchicks.com>

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On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Rogier R. Mulhuijzen wrote:

> At 01:06 27-2-01 +0100, Tobias Fredriksson wrote:
> 
> 
> >On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Drew J. Weaver wrote:
> >
> > >       Say I have a main server Ip address of (This is completely made up)
> > > 209.190.53.51, and I have 32 IP addresses blocked to it on 209.51.193.32-64
> > > (or whatever, this is an example) would this alias line still be valid for
> > > that? I've never done a server where the MAIN IP and the aliased IPs 
> > were on
> > > different IP classes.
> > >
> > > ifconfig_fxp0_alias0="inet 209.51.193.32 netmask 255.255.255.0" (is an
> > > example of what im using for the aliases.)
> >
> >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
> 
> Not if the alias is in a different subnet though. Or am I missing something?
> 
>          DocWilco        
> 

no not if its on another subnet


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