From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 31 19: 9: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from calico.dreamhaven.org (bdsl.66.12.17.211.gte.net [66.12.17.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9906537B40A for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 19:09:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from data (helo=localhost) by calico.dreamhaven.org with local-esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15d0DS-00008m-00; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 19:08:58 -0700 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 19:08:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Multiple aliases, can't ping each other In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010831190833.N538-100000@dreamhaven.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > inet xx.yy.17.210 netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast xx.yy.17.215 > > inet xx.yy.17.212 netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast xx.yy.17.215 > > inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255 > > > > (I have blotted out the first 2 octets of the internet visible IP > > addresses for security reasons.) > > > > The problem is that I cannot ping the .210 or .212 addresses from the > > local host, although I *can* ping 10.0.0.1. > > Aliases on the same subnet as the "primary" IP for an interface *must* > have the all-one's netmaks (255.255.255.255), as outlined in ifconfig(8). Thanks! I discovered that after reading the man page on ifconfig for something else, and smacked myself and went "Duh!". ;) ********************************************************* * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.org * * www.dreamhaven.org/~data * * "Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes." * ********************************************************* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message