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Date:      Thu, 9 May 2002 08:58:48 +0100
From:      Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org>
Cc:        Steve Fettig <lists@stevenfettig.com>, f-q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: setting up IP aliases in rc.conf
Message-ID:  <20020509075848.GA5768@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020508171046.015990b8@pop3s.schulte.org>
References:  <3E3C4010-62A3-11D6-84FE-000502E29155@shire.net> <5.1.0.14.2.20020508171046.015990b8@pop3s.schulte.org>

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On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:13:36PM -0500, Christopher Schulte wrote:
> At 04:58 PM 5/8/2002 -0500, Steve Fettig wrote:
> ><snip>
> >It's surprising what one can learn when trying to answer the questions of
> >others!  Now I know why my aliases beyond alias0 never worked (because of
> >the netmask), but I wanted to ask the question: Why does the netmask have 
> >to
> >be all 1's (i.e. 255.255.255.255) for additional addresses when those
> >addresses would not otherwise be entered that way?  I am asking because I
> >don't understand what makes the alias different than the single IP...
> 
> A 15 second search produces:
> 
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=fa.ijraokv.1riqagp%40ifi.uio.no&output=gplain

"Otherwise it doesn't work" isn't really the answer that Steve was looking
for, I'd hazard.

A better answer is here :

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-questions&m=100818653932698&w=2

Ceri

-- 
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