From owner-freebsd-net Mon Feb 26 16:26:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from hera.drwilco.net (10dyn61.dh.casema.net [212.64.31.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B69B337B491 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:26:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drwilco@drwilco.nl) Received: from ceres.drwilco.nl (ceres.drwilco.net [10.1.1.19]) by hera.drwilco.net (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1R0oHo16489; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 01:50:18 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from drwilco@drwilco.nl) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20010227012505.00c6b340@mail.bsdchicks.com> X-Sender: lists@mail.bsdchicks.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 01:26:41 +0100 To: Tobias Fredriksson , "Drew J. Weaver" From: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" Subject: Re: Quick question about IP aliasing Cc: "'freebsd-net@freebsd.org'" In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message