From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 11 8:56:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.webmailer.de (natpost.webmailer.de [192.67.198.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E13737B405 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 08:56:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from master (pD90495A3.dip.t-dialin.net [217.4.149.163]) by post.webmailer.de (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA28568 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:56:27 +0100 (MET) From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Boris_K=F6ster_?=" Organization: X-ITEC IT-Consulting http://www.x-itec.de To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:44:31 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: ifconfig alias question Message-ID: <3C160DBF.10471.35E5BD9@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.01) Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: Quoted-printable Content-description: Mail message body Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a question *g Interface: ed0 192.168.0.99/24 255.255.255.0 I want to add additional IP to the interface, and this works: ifconfig ed0 inet alias 192.168.0.98 netmask 255.255.255.255 Question: why netmask 255.255.255.255 instead of 255.255.255.0? I do not understand the part about this topic in the handbook. Best wishes -- Boris K=F6ster [C / C++ / PHP / FreeBSD / Security / Consulting] Maintainer of IPSEC Mini-HowTo | QSP | and more. HTTP://www.x-itec.de * koester@x-itec.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message