Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 00:26:52 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Tim Gustafson <tim@falconsoft.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two NICs In FreeBSD Message-ID: <200101040626.f046Qqp18465@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Tim Gustafson <tim@falconsoft.com> of "Wed, 03 Jan 2001 23:37:06 EST." <5.0.0.25.2.20010103233521.00a58890@esther.falconsoft.com>
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Tim Gustafson writes:
> Hello
>
> I just installed two NIC cards into my FreeBSD machine that are on the same
> LAN, each with a different IP. However, I keep getting this sort of
> message in my syslog:
I fail to understand why one would put two NICs on the same LAN. What
does this do for you that an aliased address on one NIC won't do? Is
this something you have to do to NT to fool it into appearing on the
net with multiple IP addresses?
See the "alias" option in ifconfig(8):
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 in-
terface, a netmask of 0xffffffff has to be specified.
--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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