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From: bag@sinbin.demos.su (Alex G. Bulushev)
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Subject: Re: Aliases
To: ernie@spooky.eis.net.au (Ernie Elu)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 16:15:01 +0300 (MSK)
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In-Reply-To: <199702141200.WAA23654@spooky.eis.net.au> from "Ernie Elu" at Feb 14, 97 10:00:28 pm
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> 
> Hi,
> in the past I have been running freebsd-2.1.6 and decided to upgrade one of
> my web servers to freebsd 2.2-GAMMA, the upgrade went fine except for 3
> single i/p aliases that I had that were all bound to ed0
> 
> ie.
> 
> ifconfig ed0 alias a.b.c.d netmask 0xffffffff
> ifconfig ed0 alias e.f.g.h netmask 0xffffffff

correct is:
ifconfig lo0 alias e.f.g.h netmask 0xffffffff
	 ^^^
arp -s e.f.g.h 1:2:3:4:5:6 pub
	       ^^^^^^^^^^^ arp for ed0

all aliases on lo0, aliases on ed0 etc sometimes not work :)

    Alex


> 
> etc.
> 
> After rebooting with the 2.2-GAMMA kernel ony the first of the 3 aliases 
> could be pinged. I played around for a while with no luck so I tried binding
> the 3 aliases to the lo device instead of ed0 and all worked fine.
> 
> I am happy to leave it that way but I would like someone to share any ideas
> as to what happened between 2.1.6 and 2.2-GAMMA to make the original config
> break.
> 
> The upgrade technique I used was to install all the 2.2-GAMMA source tree
> and do a make world then rebuild the kernel.
> 
> - Ernie.
>