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To: patrick <patrick@barmentlo.nl>
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Subject: Re: ifconfig alias  (SOLVED)
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This works thanks!

patrick wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Henk Wevers wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I use 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0: Fri Mar  8 09:34:29 CET 2002
>>Sinds two weeks
>># ifconfig rl0 inet alias 10.10.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0
>>ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists
>>making an ifconfig alias does noet work anymore
>>
>>Maybe a bug?
>>
> 
> no, a change in ifconfig;
> 
> man ifconfig:
> 
>      alias   Establish an additional network address for this interface.  This
>              is sometimes useful when changing network numbers, and one wishes
>              to accept packets addressed to the old interface.  If the address
>              is on the same subnet as the first network address for this
>              interface, a netmask of 0xffffffff has to be specified.
> 
> 
> change the alias subnetmast to 255.255.255.255 and it will work.
> 
> Just ran into it a few days ago.
> 
> Grtz
> patrick
> 
> 
> 



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