Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 12:11:15 -0400 From: dennis@et.htp.com (dennis) To: Adrian Corston <adrian@internode.com.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: alias ( secondary IP ) for Ethernet Ifaces in FreeBSD Message-ID: <199508281611.MAA02136@mail.htp.com>
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>dennis types: >>>>> AHA! It seems that it works ok when I run routed, but not with gated..I'm >>>>> running gated with rip only on this machine. >>>>> >>>>> If I do the alias when running gated I get the wrong entry in my routing >>>>> table (a link# entry as the gateway). This implies that gated is adding the >>>>> entry when it does its "interface scan" and not getting the information that >>>>> it expects, or that it doesn't support aliasing. >>>>> >>>>> Is anyone using alias addressing in Freebsd and gated successfully? >>>> >>>>I've cc'd this to Adrian Corston - Hi Adrian 8) - who I believe has this >>>>up and happening in a big way. >>>> >>>>Adrian - if you've got a minute to spare, can you offer Dennis a canned >>>>explanation of adding an alias to an interface outside its netmask and >>>>then stopping gated from screwing up the routes? >> >> >>>Wave a dead chicken. >>> >>>When the machine I have doing this reboots, I just fiddle by hand adding >>>aliases and restarting gated and mumbling magic incarnations until it >>>looks about right, by which time I have to go do the other ten thousand >>>things on my desk. >>> >>>I mailed off about gated's habit of breaking things using the bug >>>reporting command in FreeBSD, and to date the sum total of my responses >>>has been three people telling me to fix my timezone. I'm not real >>>impressed. >>> >>>We will probably find another OS to do this on sometime soon. >> >>Its really not FreeBSD's problem. Its really gateD. You shouldn't have to >>conform your operating system to an application. Gated needs to be more >>generic.I've copied the gated list....maybe someone over there has an answer. > >Ah - this is good to know. I am pro-FreeBSD and I'd love to keep using >it, but the lack of response on my support issue was a little depressing. > >Thankyou for your relevant reply! > Well, they say you get what you pay for....except I paid for BSD/OS and I get no response from them either....... Dennis
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