From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 25 1:28: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.qcislands.net (mail.qcislands.net [209.53.238.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 298AD15153 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 01:27:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ccstore@qcislands.net) Received: from [209.205.50.22] (helo=osa.qcislands.net) by mail.qcislands.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #7) id 118Jdc-0000xs-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 01:28:04 -0700 Received: from ccstore by osa.qcislands.net with local (Exim 3.01 #3) id 118Jnw-0002kI-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 08:38:44 +0000 From: Jim Pazarena To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ifconfig alias not working X-Mailer: SCO Shell Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 0:45:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9907250045.aa09673@dick.ccstores.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE (Generic) #0. I'm using an SMC9432TX 10/100 card. in rc.conf I've got: network_interfaces="tx0 lo0" ifconfig_tx0="inet 209.53.238.11 netmask 255.255.255.0 media autoselect" ifconfig_tx0_alias0="inet 209.53.238.30 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_tx0_alias1="inet 209.53.238.31 netmask 255.255.255.0" while the .11 address works fine, the .30 &.31 addresses do not. (I've tried several available IP's, 29, 30, 31, 32). an ifconfig -a shows: tx0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 209.53.238.11 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 209.53.238.255 inet 209.53.238.30 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 209.53.238.255 inet 209.53.238.31 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 209.53.238.255 ether 00:e0:29:2f:8b:7e media: autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active while a ping to 209.53.238.11 works fine, a ping to the other one(s) shows: ping: sendto: Host is down and sometimes: ping -c3 209.53.238.30 PING 209.53.238.30 (209.53.238.30): 56 data bytes --- 209.53.238.30 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss any ideas what may be wrong? -- Jim Pazarena mailto:paz@ccstores.com http://www.qcislands.net/paz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message