From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 15 12:33:26 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA00372 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 12:33:26 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA00367 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 12:33:24 -0700 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA00247; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 12:32:56 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199509151932.MAA00247@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: more ifconfig alias problems... To: mmead@Glock.COM (matthew c. mead) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 12:32:56 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509151615.MAA07761@Glock.COM> from "matthew c. mead" at Sep 15, 95 12:15:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1154 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > I'm doing the following to add a second address to my FreeBSD > 2.0.5R production environment machine: > > root@Glock % nslookup neon > Server: localhost.COM > Address: 127.0.0.1 > > Name: neon.Glock.COM > Address: 198.82.228.159 > > root@Glock % ifconfig ed0 neon alias netmask 255.255.255.0 > ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists > root@Glock % telnet neon > Trying 198.82.228.159... > ^C > root@Glock % ifconfig ed0 delete neon > root@Glock % ifconfig ed0 alias neon netmask 255.255.255.0 ^^^^^ make the netmask on aliases be 255.255.255.255 there was talk of making this the default when an 'alias' but I don't know if it was done > ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists > root@Glock % telnet neon > Trying 198.82.228.159... > ^C > root@Glock % ifconfig ed0 delete neon > root@Glock % > > > > Any ideas what I'm doing wrong, or do I need to upgrade? > > > -matt > > -- > Matthew C. Mead > > mmead@Glock.COM | Network Administration and Software Development > http://www.Glock.COM/~mmead/ | Consulting: BizNet Technologies -> mmead@bnt.com >