Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 17:13:36 -0500 From: Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org> To: Steve Fettig <lists@stevenfettig.com>, Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>, f-q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> Subject: Re: setting up IP aliases in rc.conf Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020508171046.015990b8@pop3s.schulte.org> In-Reply-To: <B8FF09BA.8361%lists@stevenfettig.com> References: <3E3C4010-62A3-11D6-84FE-000502E29155@shire.net>
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At 04:58 PM 5/8/2002 -0500, Steve Fettig wrote: ><snip> >It's surprising what one can learn when trying to answer the questions of >others! Now I know why my aliases beyond alias0 never worked (because of >the netmask), but I wanted to ask the question: Why does the netmask have to >be all 1's (i.e. 255.255.255.255) for additional addresses when those >addresses would not otherwise be entered that way? I am asking because I >don't understand what makes the alias different than the single IP... A 15 second search produces: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=fa.ijraokv.1riqagp%40ifi.uio.no&output=gplain >TIA, >Steve -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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