Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 20:07:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with ifconfig aliases Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9904272006110.18843-100000@shell.xecu.net> In-Reply-To: <199904270100.VAA28941@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote: > I believe the problem lies in the fact you are putting both addresses > on the same LAN. Could you also send the output of 'netstat -rn' to > verify this? What do pings and traceroutes return? When I set my own > address to another on my LAN, I get the same error message and a > messed up routing table. Why are you aliasing two addresses on the > same LAN? I am not aware of a really good reason to do that. Just to let everybody know, the solution lay in flushing the arp cache. (arp -d -a for the record, in case somebody searching the archives has this problem in the future) Not sure why I or anybody on this list didn't think of that sooner, but there you have it :> Andy ---------------------------------------------------- Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Network Administrator Fax 301-620-9634 Xecunet, LLC www.xecu.net ---------------------------------------------------- Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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