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Date:      Thu, 29 Oct 1998 09:47:35 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@jaguar.ir.miami.edu>
To:        Arisandy <sandy@divre5.telkom.co.id>
Cc:        FreeBSD Question <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Ethernet Aliases??
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.05.9810290944150.11869-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu>
In-Reply-To: <000b01be034a$4a1bed40$780c600a@sandy.divre5.net>

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You cannot assign a secondary address to an interface that already has an
address in that network.  So think of 10.96.12.0/24 as already bound to
xl0/  You can only alias another subnet now (e.g. 10.96.5.0/24).  Why are
you trying to add two addresses in the same net to your card?

Joe Clarke

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Arisandy wrote:

> I'm running 3.0-Release
> and use 3Com 905 (xl0)
> My existing Ip address is 10.96.12.120 and I wanna make alias
> 10.96.12.121 and 122 with netmask 255.255.255.0 <--all of this intranet ip
> address
> 
> I try with:
> ifconfig xl0 alias 10.96.12.121 netmask 0xffffff00
> but there is message:
> ifconfig: ioctl (SIOAIFADDR): File Exists
> I couldn't ping the alias ip address???
> 
> but when I try other segment 10.96.5.121 it success??
> so what wrong with my segment??
> my gateway is 10.96.12.1
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Wassalam,
> Arisandy Arief <sandy@divre5.telkom.co.id>
> 
> 
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