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Date:      Thu, 16 Nov 1995 11:49:56 +0100 (MET)
From:      Piero Serini <piero@strider.ibenet.it>
To:        team_fbf@pristine.com.tw (ywliu)
Cc:        wollman@lcs.mit.edu, me@gw.muc.ditec.de, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: How do I setup IP aliases?
Message-ID:  <199511161049.LAA15220@strider.ibenet.it>
In-Reply-To: <199511161147.LAA28103@neptune.pristine.com.tw> from "ywliu" at Nov 16, 95 11:47:27 am

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Hello.

Quoting from ywliu (Thu Nov 16 12:47:27 1995):
> > > ifconfig de0 134.98.17.10 netmask 0xffffff00
> > > ifconfig de0 alias 134.98.18.10 netmask 0xffffffff
> > > ifconfig de0 alias 134.98.19.10 netmask 0xffffffff
> > 
> > > Should I expect problems, or am I understanding something wrong?
> > 
> > Yes.  You should expect to be unable to contact any other host on the
> > 134.98.18 and 134.98.19 subnets.
> 
> Could you elaborate on this more ? Why don't those two aliases work ?

Because unless you run a routing protocol which understands vari-
able subnetting, you just told your interface  that  you  have  a
network 134.98.19.10 with a single address (134.98.19.10) and the
network and broadcast addresses identical  (both:  134.98.19.10).
In other words, any address on the network 134.98.19.0 is seen as
non-local, and your machine isn't able to contact them.

The  same for the other network 134.98.18.10. Please Garrett cor-
rect me where I'm wrong (I'm sure you will).

Bye,
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Piero Serini                                            Via Giambologna, 1 
<Piero@Free.IT>                                     I 20136 Milano - ITALY



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