From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 29 1:28:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xenet.harz.de. (xenet.harz.de [193.159.181.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C705D14DD6 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 01:28:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Meyser@xenet.de) Received: (from matthias@localhost) by xenet.harz.de. (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA28598; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:28:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from matthias) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:28:02 +0200 From: Matthias Meyser To: "Don O'Neil" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why can't I ping my own IP Aliases? Message-ID: <19990929102802.A28471@server.intern> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Don O'Neil on Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 06:31:19PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 06:31:19PM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: > I've configured a few IP aliases on my 3.3 machine, and they show up under > ifconfig -a... but when I try to ping them from the machine they're defined > on I can't... nor can I telnet or ftp to them. I can ping/telnet/ftp to them > from outside the machine, so I know the traffic is getting routed > correctly... what gives? Specify a netmask of 255.255.255.255 when adding the aliases if you didn`t already. CU matthias -- \\ // N N EEE TTT Matthias Meyser, Meyser@harz.de \\ // eee NN N E T Gesellschaft fuer Informations- und \X/ e e N N N EE T Kommunikationssysteme mbH // \\ e ee N NN E T 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Burgstaetter Strasse 6 // \\ eeee N N EEE T Telefon: +49-5323-94018 Fax: +49-5323-94011 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message