From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 29 08:14:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA11687 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:14:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jaguar.ir.miami.edu (jaguar.ir.miami.edu [129.171.32.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA11682 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:14:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@jaguar.ir.miami.edu) Received: from jaguar.ir.miami.edu ("port 4994"@jaguar.ir.miami.edu [129.171.32.10]) by jaguar.ir.miami.edu (PMDF V5.2-29 #30976) with ESMTP id <0F1L00CDIJSSOC@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 11:14:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 11:14:52 -0500 (EST) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" Subject: Re: Ethernet Aliases?? In-reply-to: <19981029102717.A8552@emu.sourcee.com> To: "Norman C. Rice" Cc: Arisandy , FreeBSD Question Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message