From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 3 11: 9:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.qcislands.net (mail.qcislands.net [209.53.238.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6415514D36 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 11:09:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ccstore@qcislands.net) Received: from [209.53.238.8] (helo=wwwa.qcislands.net) by mail.qcislands.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #7) id 11Bj0H-0000vk-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 11:09:33 -0700 Received: from ccstore by wwwa.qcislands.net with local (Exim 3.01 #3) id 11Bj0I-0000To-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 03 Aug 1999 18:09:34 +0000 From: Jim Pazarena To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig alias setup X-Mailer: SCO Shell Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 10:54:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9908031054.aa27922@dick.ccstores.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 00:33:03 +0100 >From: Brian Somers >What I'd like to know is this: On SCO, if I configure two aliases > ip 4.2.3.1 netmask 0xffffff00 > ip 4.2.3.2 netmask 0xffffff00 >and then connect() to 4.3.2.3, what source IP number does the packet >get ? >I don't see how conflicting netmasks can be implemented.... SCO >sounds a bit broken to me. Am I missing something ? No no, it is FreeBSD which is insisting on conflicting netmasks. SCO uses the _same_ netmask. That was the source of my question. Why does FreeBSD NOT PERMIT identical netmasks on aliased IPs ? -- Jim Pazarena mailto:paz@ccstores.com http://www.qcislands.net/paz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message