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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 2001 01:06:55 +0100 (CET)
From:      Tobias Fredriksson <c4@worldclass.jolt.nu>
To:        "Drew J. Weaver" <drew.weaver@thenap.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-net@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Quick question about IP aliasing
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102270106030.36882-100000@worldclass.jolt.nu>
In-Reply-To: <B1A7D9973EBED3119ADD009027DC8649180DBF@mailman.thenap.com>

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On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Drew J. Weaver wrote:

> 	Say I have a main server Ip address of (This is completely made up)
> 209.190.53.51, and I have 32 IP addresses blocked to it on 209.51.193.32-64
> (or whatever, this is an example) would this alias line still be valid for
> that? I've never done a server where the MAIN IP and the aliased IPs were on
> different IP classes.
> 
> ifconfig_fxp0_alias0="inet 209.51.193.32 netmask 255.255.255.0" (is an
> example of what im using for the aliases.)

do 'netmask 255.255.255.255' instead or 'netmask 0xffffffff' since this is
an alias... for some reason otherwise services may not bind to the ip
correctly

> Is there something special I need to do since these aren't on the same net?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Drew
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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