From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 13 22: 0:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linuxpower.p00t.net (mke-160-240-116.wi.rr.com [24.160.240.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD3C137B422 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 21:59:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (trout@localhost) by linuxpower.p00t.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e8E5A5P02005 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 00:10:05 -0500 Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 00:10:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Tom Duffey To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! Configuring for two IP addresses => one interface, and NATD In-Reply-To: <002a01c01e05$f05e8550$1200a8c0@zircon> 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 > Change the netmask of the alias from 255.255.255.0 to 255.255.255.255. I > know it doesn't seem right, but all the FreeBSD machines I've worked on > require aliases to have 255.255.255.255 as their netmask. Continuing this just a bit further... as far as I can tell, an alias should always have 255.255.255.255 as it's netmask *unless* it is not on the same network as your primary IP. When this is the case, use the netmask of the alias' network. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Tom Duffey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message