Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 16:36:09 -0400 From: Christopher Weimann <cweimann@k12hq.com> To: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net> Cc: Michael Meltzer <mjm@michaelmeltzer.com>, Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>, freebsd stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: unable to alias more than 1 ip address in a subnet Message-ID: <20020625163609.A90689@mail.k12us.com> In-Reply-To: <20020625201147.GB11513@gits.dyndns.org>; from cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net on Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:11:47PM %2B0200 References: <200206242356.JAA12574@lightning.itga.com.au> <20020625003023.GA2654@gits.dyndns.org> <004d01c21c63$5ce70820$34f820c0@ix1x1000> <20020625201147.GB11513@gits.dyndns.org>
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On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:11:47PM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
>
> for instance, ifconfig(8) doesn't say anything about netmasking
> .255 for aliases.
>
%uname -r
4.3-STABLE
Snipped from man 8 ifconfig....
alias Establish an additional network address for this interface. This
is sometimes useful when changing network numbers, and one wishes
to accept packets addressed to the old interface. If the address
is on the same subnet as the first network address for this in-
terface, a netmask of 0xffffffff has to be specified.
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