From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 20 14:53: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rip.psg.com (rip.psg.com [147.28.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38734153D5 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 14:53:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from randy@psg.com) Received: from randy by rip.psg.com with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 120Bfl-0000f6-00; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 14:52:57 -0800 From: Randy Bush MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Chris D. Faulhaber" Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: alias ip addresses not pingable References: Message-Id: Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 14:52:57 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> 3.4.-stable-9912201156 >> >> this is new and exciting. it used to work, and still does over on a 3.3-RC >> system. i imagine i have fumbled something, but don't know what. >> >> in /etc/rc.conf >> network_interfaces="fxp0 lo0" # List of network interfaces (lo0 is loopback). >> ifconfig_fxp0="inet 147.28.0.39 netmask 255.255.255.0" >> ifconfig_fxp0_alias0="inet 147.28.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0" >> ifconfig_fxp0_alias1="inet 147.28.0.4 netmask 255.255.255.0" >> > > aliases should have a netmask of 255.255.255.255, as seen in ifconfig(8) and, at the bottom my message to which you are replying, the careful reader will find that i reported trying that with the same result. randy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message