Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:05:49 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: trevarthan@wingnet.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.6.2 RELEASE, critical ifconfig problem Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.0.20020820140408.01c10fa0@marble.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <200208201334.58361.trevarthan@wingnet.net>
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Use the netmask. Also, you might as well alias it to the loopback
interface, not the ethernet interface.
e.g.
ifconfig lo0 206.30.56.8 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias
You dont need to add the local route either.
---Mike
At 01:34 PM 20/08/2002 -0400, Matthias Trevarthan wrote:
>On Tuesday 20 August 2002 01:19 pm, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > By any chance are you creating IP aliases with a netmask other then
> > 255.255.255.255? That used to work and is now forbidden.
> >
> > -- Brooks
>
>Below is one of the typical rc.virtual statements that WILL NOT work with the
>4.6.2 RELEASE kernel:
>
>/sbin/ifconfig fxp0 inet 206.30.56.8 alias
>route add -host 206.30.56.8 127.0.0.1
>
>Again, no error messages, no fireworks, no nothing!
>
>Matthias
>
>
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