Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:56:47 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Robert Lindgren" <robert@orcafat.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Ip alias Message-ID: <004f01c09acf$9efc5a60$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <3A91A168.8020309@orcafat.com>
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> Hi!!! > > When I add an ip alias with the command: > > ifconfig fxp0 alias xxx.yyy.zzz.www netmask 255.255.255.255 > > The ip-address gets default gateways address as gateway, is this correct? Could you be more specific? Perhaps showing the output of 'netstat -rn' would be helpful. > The problem I have is that if the def gateway is gateway for the alias > address then you must go out the the gatway and back to connect to the > "real" address on the nic. Please help me solving this little problem If I'm understanding you correctly, what you describe is not a problem. Any traffic destined to the alias won't actually go out on the wire and come back into the NIC; it's all handled within the TCP/IP stack. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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