From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 23 22:11:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA09505 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 22:11:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from daria.cdnow.com (daria.cdnow.com [198.138.235.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA09476; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 22:11:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from heller@localhost) by daria.cdnow.com (8.7.5/8.6.7) id BAA11041; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 01:07:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "A. Karl Heller" Message-Id: <199708240507.BAA11041@daria.cdnow.com> Subject: Re: ifconfig with aliases address complains To: tom@uniserve.com (Tom) Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 01:07:06 -0400 (EDT) Cc: kory@avatar.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: heller@cdnow.com In-Reply-To: from "Tom" at Aug 23, 97 12:54:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Does this apply to "255.255.255.0" masks as well? > On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Kory Hamzeh wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm running 2.2.2-RELASE, and my /etc/rc.conf looks like this: > > > > network_interfaces="de0 lo0" # List of network interfaces (lo0 is loopback). > > ifconfig_de0="inet 199.33.206.1 netmask 255.255.255.192" > > ifconfig_de0_alias0="inet 199.33.206.10 netmask 255.255.255.192" > Use a netmask of 255.255.255.255 for aliases, when you want overlapping > subnets. > > ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" # default loopback device configuration. > > > > I get the following message during boot up when rc.network is doing the > > ifconfig commands: > > > > ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists > > > > However, everything seems to be OK and the alias address is created for > > de0. Why is it complaining and what could I have done to cause this? > > > > On another note, I did install kerberos, but have can I get the utilities > > not to use it? I plan to enable it later on when I've got the system > > stable. I checked all of the kerberos man pages. > > > > Thanks, > > Kory > > > > > > > > > > > Tom -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A. Karl Heller Senior Systems Engineer CDnow Inc. http://cdnow.com