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Date:      Thu, 31 Oct 1996 01:09:34 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
To:        Jeremy Sigmon <jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ping failure to alias
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.961031010810.15243H-100000@quagmire.ki.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961030184123.18214A-100000@www.hsc.wvu.edu>

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On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Jeremy Sigmon wrote:

> 
> I have an aliased ip on my machine.
> when I ping to the real one www.hsc.wvu.edu it works
> when I ping to hscnet.hsc.wvu.edu it fails.
> The outside world connects fine.  It can only not talk to itself.
> netstat -rn shows hscnet's gateway to be 127.0.0.1.
> i am getting the error arpresolve on my error terminal.
> i have tried arp -s hscnet.hsc.wvu.edu (ethernet addr) pub
> but no help.
> any ideas?  I imagne this is something very very simple, but
> I have evidently missed something in the man pages and my Nemeth.

How are you setting up your alias?  I've been using IP aliasing since
2.0.5 with no problems, setup as:

ifconfig ed0 alias 205.150.102.14 netmask 255.255.255.255


Marc G. Fournier                                  scrappy@ki.net
Systems Administrator @ ki.net               scrappy@freebsd.org




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