From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 30 17:32:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA09702 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 17:32:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA09585 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 17:31:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from quagmire.ki.net (root@quagmire.ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id QAA22331 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 16:33:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spirit.ki.net (root@spirit.ki.net [205.150.102.51]) by quagmire.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with ESMTP id TAA15871; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 19:33:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by spirit.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA26092; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 19:33:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: spirit.ki.net: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 19:33:20 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Bill Fenner cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ifconfig alias question... In-Reply-To: <96Sep30.115132pdt.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Bill Fenner wrote: > In message you write: > ># Initial configuration > >ifconfig ed0 inet 205.150.102.51 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > > ># Aliases > >ifconfig ed0 alias 204.101.125.200 netmask 255.255.255.255 > >When the alias is a different network, as opposed to another IP address on the > same network, then you want to use a real netmask, not 255.255.255.255 . > Okay, great...thanks :) > There's a bug in the ARP routines that always sends ARP requests with the > last-added-alias's IP address; this is fixed in -current. > Hrmmm...I have plans to upgrade that machine to -current, but am trying to hold that off for a little while, if possible... The bug...is it something that can be retrofits to -stable, or is this kernel changes we are talking here? Thanks again... Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org