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Date:      Thu, 29 Oct 1998 11:14:52 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@jaguar.ir.miami.edu>
To:        "Norman C. Rice" <nrice@emu.sourcee.com>
Cc:        Arisandy <sandy@divre5.telkom.co.id>, FreeBSD Question <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Ethernet Aliases??
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.05.9810291113260.21224-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19981029102717.A8552@emu.sourcee.com>

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Yeah...binding the same net to the card won't work, but doing the all f's
approach gives a /32 and not a /24...isn't that the way it's shown in the
example in rc.conf?  Thanks for clarifying, Norman =).

Joe Clarke

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Norman C. Rice wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 09:47:35AM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > You cannot assign a secondary address to an interface that already has an
> > address in that network.  
> 
> I believe that you can by specifying a netmask of 0xffffffff for
> all aliases on the same net.
> 
> > 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
>                                             ^^^^^^^^^^
> Try 0xffffffff
> -- 
> Regards,
> Norman C. Rice, Jr.
> 
> > > 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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