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Date:      Mon, 03 Apr 2000 10:41:21 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To:        Lanny Baron <lnb@freebsdsystems.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: ifconfig problem
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000403104121.mj@isy.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000403023225.lnb@freebsdsystems.com>

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On 03-Apr-00 Lanny Baron wrote:
> Hello,
> I have ifconfig'ed one nic as follows:
> 
> lnb@satan:~$ifconfig vr0 
> vr0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet6 fe80::250:baff:feae:a6d9%vr0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
>         inet 24.69.168.2 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 24.69.168.63
>         inet 24.69.168.6 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 24.69.168.63
>         ether 00:50:ba:ae:a6:d9 
>         media: autoselect (100baseTX) status: active
> 
> Yet, if I try to ping one of them (the other pings fine)...
> 
> PING satan.freebsdsystems.com (24.69.168.6): 56 data bytes
> ^C
> --- satan.freebsdsystems.com ping statistics ---
> 6 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
> 
> lnb@satan:~$ping 24.69.168.6
> PING 24.69.168.6 (24.69.168.6): 56 data bytes
> ping: sendto: Host is down
> ping: sendto: Host is down
> 

A shot in the dark: Have you explicitly used the alias option when assigning
the IP numbers?
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