From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 18 06:17:41 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F90E16A4CE for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 06:17:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6801943D2F for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 06:17:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2I6HQ8K046155; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:47:27 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:47:26 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.92 References: <44497.69.36.228.194.1110474073.squirrel@69.36.228.194> <20050316221046.GA75292@unixpages.org> <53000.69.36.228.194.1111090664.squirrel@69.36.228.194> In-Reply-To: <53000.69.36.228.194.1111090664.squirrel@69.36.228.194> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart10194845.Q7myBI6W7A"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200503181647.26346.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -5.7 () IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_01_02,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: Amandeep Pannu Subject: Re: Freebsd 5.0 NICs issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 06:17:41 -0000 --nextPart10194845.Q7myBI6W7A Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 06:47, Amandeep Pannu wrote: > Now the em0 nic is up with 205.229.165.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 > ifconfig em1 inet 205.229.165.8 netmask 255.255.255.0 up You can't have 2 NIC's on the same subnet (you can't have 2 IPs on any NIC = in=20 the same subnet). Why do you want to do this? If you want an alias you only need 1 NIC and yo= u=20 do.. ifconfig em0 inet 205.229.165.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig em0 alias inet 205.229.165.8 netmask 255.255.255.255 What is the second NIC going to be used for? =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart10194845.Q7myBI6W7A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCOnJ25ZPcIHs/zowRAmQBAJ9n4O9dEGmC7cpCrBspYSsyh9KwjwCcCAiR hqLoukGxauz5IwgdozHWIqo= =dd+H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart10194845.Q7myBI6W7A--