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To: sameer <sameer@c2.net>
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Subject: Re: ip aliases entire cidr blocks 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 01 Oct 1996 18:56:39 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 19:08:47 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> 	I'd like to have my freebsd box reply to all addresses in a
> CIDR block. Is there something I can do so that:
> 
> ifconfig de0 alias 208.139.36.32 255.255.255.240 
> 
> 	will make the 208.139.36.32/27 CIDR block a set of IP aliases
> on my freebsd machine? This would make administration of the thing so
> much easier.

I believe Matt Dillon has extentions which do precisely that - you
could ask him.  I don't know all the details, however, or whether or
not this feature is slated for more mainstream development.

					Jordan