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Date:      Sun, 18 Aug 2002 09:50:25 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Raymond <raymond@vignettestraining.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Ifconfig Error when setting ip address
Message-ID:  <20020817215024.GB10025@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <3D5EA9CD.6080201@vignettestraining.com>
References:  <3D5EA9CD.6080201@vignettestraining.com>

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On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 12:53:49PM -0700, Raymond wrote:
> I have a system that has two network cards in it,
> whenever I try to set the network cards on the same subnet,
> for example "192.168.1.1" and "192.168.1.2", it fails.

The simple answer is that you *don't* put 2 NICs on the same subnet.
If you want your host to respond to different IP addresses, you use
aliases on a NIC's configuration.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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