From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 8 01:34:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA21646 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 01:34:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from support.centercomp.com ([206.129.174.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA21639 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 01:34:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eric@clean.net) Received: from eric (muspell-23.PEAK.ORG [198.68.22.163]) by support.centercomp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA21812 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 01:32:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199810080832.BAA21812@support.centercomp.com> X-Sender: eric@clean.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1.0.63 (Beta) Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 01:32:53 -0700 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Eric Hake Subject: Multi-Home problems (revisited) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, I found that using an alias on my ifconfig line won't work for my application -- I'm trying to set up a firewall machine, with two Intel EtherExpress 100B's, and when I set up my /etc/rc.conf to configure the IP addresses for each NIC, like so: ifconfig_fxp0="inet 10.10.138.224 netmask 255.255.255.192" ifconfig_fxp1="inet 10.10.138.225 netmask 255.255.255.192" After booting up, I get the following message listed by 'dmesg'... arp: 00:a0:c9:2c:ca:5c is using my IP address 10.10.138.225! QUESTION: How do I set up a multi-homed host if not like the above? Am I missing something? NOTE: I don't want to alias two IPs to one Ethernet, since I want to block all IP forwarding in the Firewall, and have it connected to two different LANs... Thanks for any help! Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message