From owner-freebsd-net Mon Feb 26 19:48:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7919837B4EC for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 19:48:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.9.3) with SMTP id f1R3kmi13734; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:46:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <001501c0a070$3a14d900$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Jonathan Graehl" , References: Subject: Re: Quick question about IP aliasing Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:49:02 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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. Yes, but you're missing the point. The point is that you need to use a netmask of 255.255.255.255 for aliased IPs on FreeBSD, regardless of the alias of the primary (non-alias) IP. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message