From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 12 02:56:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA28195 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 02:56:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA28086 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 02:56:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA21288; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 02:55:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 02:55:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "David L. Aldridge" cc: black@cypher.net, freebsd-questions Subject: Re: IP Aliasing on FreeBSD 2.x In-Reply-To: <357EC918.A26C1DA0@aldridge.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, David L. Aldridge wrote: > Ben, > I read your disclaimer and fully understand the busy/grouchy thing. So, if you > don't feel like branching to IP Aliasing at the moment, please use the Del key. > > I recently upgraded to FreeBSD 2.2.6 and lost the ability to ping an aliased > address from the box on which it is aliased. From the outside yes. It worked > before the upgrade. > I don't particularly wish to add routes during boot and wish to understand why > it has ceased working. Routing, I think. It hasn't worked for a while tho. If you want to be able to ping it add a route from the alias to 127.0.0.1. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message