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From: "Jonathan Graehl" <jonathan@graehl.org>
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Subject: RE: Quick question about IP aliasing
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 17:09:15 -0800
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> 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

Why would this be?  The two are numerically equivalent.

-Jon

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