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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 2001 01:26:41 +0100
From:      "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <drwilco@drwilco.nl>
To:        Tobias Fredriksson <c4@worldclass.jolt.nu>, "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:  <4.3.2.7.0.20010227012505.00c6b340@mail.bsdchicks.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102270106030.36882-100000@worldclass.jolt.n u>
References:  <B1A7D9973EBED3119ADD009027DC8649180DBF@mailman.thenap.com>

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At 01:06 27-2-01 +0100, Tobias Fredriksson wrote:


>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

Not if the alias is in a different subnet though. Or am I missing something?

         DocWilco        


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