From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 13 9:32: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (gsi.enoreo.on.ca [209.82.52.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49AF437B955 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 09:32:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from matt (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.42.130.87]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.10.1/8.9.2) with SMTP id e7DGVMK77575; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 12:31:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <000e01c00544$06b31ad0$1200a8c0@matt> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Charlie" , "Peter" , References: <200008091553.KAA02534@smtp.intop.net> Subject: Re: Problems: identd not working on sec ip HELP!!!!!!!!! Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 12:32:03 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # > > ifconfig_xl0="inet 192.168.10.97 netmask 255.255.255.0" > > ifconfig_xl0_alias0="inet 192.168.10.91 netmask 0xffffffff" > > Hmm... check your netmask on the alias line in /etc/rc.conf... do > you really mean for it be /32? Yes, for some reason FreeBSD requires aliases to have a netmask of 0xffffffff. (If you try and set up an alias using 0xffffff00, just like the primary ip on the NIC, the alias won't work.) -- Matthew Emmerton GSI Computer Services +1 (800) 217-5409 (Canada) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message