From owner-freebsd-net Mon Feb 26 16: 9:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from worldclass.jolt.nu (lgh637b.hn-krukan.AC [212.217.139.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F324837B491 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:09:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from c4@worldclass.jolt.nu) Received: by worldclass.jolt.nu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0BD774D; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 01:06:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by worldclass.jolt.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 656C449; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 01:06:56 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 01:06:55 +0100 (CET) From: Tobias Fredriksson To: "Drew J. Weaver" Cc: "'freebsd-net@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Quick question about IP aliasing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message