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Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 17:13:36 -0500
To: Steve Fettig <lists@stevenfettig.com>,
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	"Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
From: Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org>
Subject: Re: setting up IP aliases in rc.conf
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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

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