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To: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
cc: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams), stable@freebsd.org, wollman@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: arp and async problems 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 16 Feb 1996 04:57:31 +1100."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 11:08:33 -0800
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>Nate Williams writes:
>
>> I think you are doing something that worked in 2.1, but was illegal and
>> is no longer allowed.
> 
>Oh, terrific, dandy, *&#@$%* .. 
>
>> This comment from /sys/netinet/in.c might be of interest:
>> revision 1.14.4.2
>> date: 1996/01/30 21:41:34;  author: davidg;  state: Exp;  lines: +8 -2
>> Brought in change from rev 1.21: fix for aliases & all-ones netmasks.
>
>I'd be interested in the impact on the functionality of named, if any. Some
>of these aliases are primary DNS server addresses (not to mention WWW
>"virtual hosts") which is going to make "interesting" to change .. (read as
>"politically unwise" to even attempt). 
>
>There is no way I can afford to split out 14 subnets with only one address
>in each to support a DNS and WWW server nor is it practical to stick that
>many ethernet cards into the box.
>
>If this is to be a permanent feature that's one less box with which I can
>continue to test the stuff. It will just have to stay at it's current
>release level .. <grumble>

   Actually, I think you're either seeing a bug or you're doing something
slightly wrong in the ifconfigs. It *should* be possible to have multiple
IP aliases in one subnet. Garrett might be able to say more.

-DG

David Greenman
Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project