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From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com>
To: "D. Alex Neilson" <neilson@www.nugate.com>,
        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: "Alex Neilson" <neilson@nugate.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 22:47:41 -0500
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On Wed, 28 Oct 98 19:11:00 PST, D. Alex Neilson wrote:

>Route problem:	Tell host 10.10.10.10 that host 10.10.11.11
>		is directly reachable via interface vx1
>
>If 10.10.11.11 has ethernet address 04:20:38:af:eb:4c, it'd be
>kewl if this would work
>
>   route add -host 10.10.11.11 04:20:38:af:eb:4c -interface vx1
>
>but of course it doesn't.  Can I avoid ifconfig-ing a 10.10.11.0-net
>address into 10.10.10.10 to make it work?

I've always used class C networks, but I think I understand IP
addresses...

This should work without any special considerations because the network
is only the first octet, 10.

Are you using the wrong netmask, like perhaps 255.255.255.0 instead of
255.0.0.0 ??
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