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Date:      Mon, 05 Jan 1998 22:26:34 +0000
From:      Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
To:        andrew@pubnix.net
Cc:        isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ifconfig & 2nd IP address - weird...
Message-ID:  <34B15E1A.EE0854C6@tdx.co.uk>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980105165929.8003D-100000@guardian.fortress.org>

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Thanks to yourself, and the numerous other people who replied... Changing the
netmask to 255.255.255.255 (0xffffffff) did indeed fix the problem...

I'd not seen this mentioned anywhere - or if I did it must have been long
forgotten...

Regards,

Karl Pielorz


Andrew Webster wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Karl Pielorz wrote:
> 
> >
> > de0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> >         inet 192.168.100.1 netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast 192.168.100.31
> >         inet 192.168.100.2 netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast 192.168.100.31
> >         ether 00:00:c0:eb:a3:0b
> 
> Use netmask 0xffffffff (255.255.255.255) for 2nd and additional addresses
> on the same interface.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Andrew Webster                              andrew@pubnix.net



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