From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 15 14:28:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9073316A41F for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:28:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81F5B43D5D for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:28:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2) with ESMTP id j8FESXBn009076; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:28:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) id j8FESXgT009075; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:28:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200509151428.j8FESXgT009075@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: john@yoafrica.com (John Oxley) Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:28:33 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20050915141904.GB52909@yoafrica.com> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPs , Netmasks and Broadcast. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:28:38 -0000 > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 09:31:20AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > Anyway, all the aliases for any one NIC card must be 255.255.255.255. > > Not so. All aliases for any one NIC on the same network must be > 0xffffffff. If you have an alias which is on another network, then the > first alias on that network must use that networks netmask and then all > the other aliases on the same network use 0xffffffff. > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-virtual-hosts.html > > But when you have two different networks on one NIC, I think you may > have to do some routing (I'm lucky, I just do the routing on the Cisco > switches that all our servers are plugged into :). Well, I think you are getting in to complications that are beyond what the questioner asked. ////jerry > > Have a look at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-routing.html > > Also google for or dual homed or something like that. I > can't remember exactly what you have to do because I haven't done it in > so long. > > -John > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >