Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 17:59:25 -0400 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Luis_E=2E_Mu=F1oz=22?= <lem@cantv.net> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ifconfig & 2nd IP address - weird... Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980105175925.0085e9a0@pop.cantv.net> In-Reply-To: <34B13CDA.AF845AFD@tdx.co.uk>
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At 08:04 PM 05/01/1998 +0000, Karl Pielorz wrote: >Hi All, > >If I do the following on my BSD box (to serve as a secondary IP for a virtual >web-server):- > >ifconfig de0 192.168.100.2 alias > >"ifconfig -a" then shows:- > >de0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.100.1 netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast 192.168.100.31 > inet 192.168.100.2 netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast 192.168.100.31 > ether 00:00:c0:eb:a3:0b >lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 >etc... > >(netmask should be 255.255.255.224 - which the above seems to be - this puts >me on a net of 30 hosts...) > >I can ping the .2 address fine from other machines, but I can't ping that >address from the machine itself... You need to add a route to the new 'virtual' address via the loopback address. Something like $ route add 192.168.100.2 127.0.0.1 will probably work. -lem
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