From owner-freebsd-net Tue Feb 27 13:45:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from kiop.wiredmedia.co.uk (wiredmedia-2.dsl.easynet.co.uk [212.135.181.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C02D37B722 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:45:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@tao.org.uk) Received: from tao.org.uk (postfix@genius.tao.org.uk [212.135.162.50] (may be forged)) by kiop.wiredmedia.co.uk (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f1RLpJ348694 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 21:51:24 GMT (envelope-from joe@tao.org.uk) Received: by tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id 785B031C5; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 19:45:56 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 19:45:56 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" Cc: Matthew Emmerton , Jonathan Graehl , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quick question about IP aliasing Message-ID: <20010227194556.C737@tao.org.uk> References: <001501c0a070$3a14d900$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <4.3.2.7.0.20010227070424.00d25c10@mail.bsdchicks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="4ZLFUWh1odzi/v6L" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20010227070424.00d25c10@mail.bsdchicks.com>; from drwilco@drwilco.nl on Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 07:16:14AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --4ZLFUWh1odzi/v6L Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 07:16:14AM +0100, Rogier R. Mulhuijzen wrote: > > >The point is that you need to use a netmask of 255.255.255.255 for alias= ed > >IPs on FreeBSD, regardless of the alias of the primary (non-alias) IP. >=20 > Everybody is saying use 255.255.255.255 for an alias. Noone is giving=20 > reasons why. I don't understand this either. To my mind it's a bug if it doesn't work with the full netmask for an IP alias address. Joe --4ZLFUWh1odzi/v6L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjqcA/MACgkQXVIcjOaxUBajYQCfWYL3MN4PbJRPTgdPkqoa9Xrz cpYAoJtjnAMsyGnlWyTd4DJ9rtIE8aa4 =RJa6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4ZLFUWh1odzi/v6L-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message