From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 22:29:46 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 22:29:44 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-56-41.knology.net [24.214.56.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2836037B402 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 22:29:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f046Qqp18465; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 00:26:53 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200101040626.f046Qqp18465@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Tim Gustafson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Two NICs In FreeBSD In-reply-to: Message from Tim Gustafson of "Wed, 03 Jan 2001 23:37:06 EST." <5.0.0.25.2.20010103233521.00a58890@esther.falconsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 00:26:52 -0600 Sender: dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message