From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 25 4: 0:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-99.max1-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.8.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24A651526B for ; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 04:00:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA13021; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 12:00:03 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA71152; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 12:00:31 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199907251100.MAA71152@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Jim Pazarena Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ifconfig alias not working In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 25 Jul 1999 00:45:02 PDT." <9907250045.aa09673@dick.ccstores.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 12:00:31 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE (Generic) #0. I'm using an SMC9432TX 10/100 card. > > in rc.conf I've got: > > network_interfaces="tx0 lo0" > ifconfig_tx0="inet 209.53.238.11 netmask 255.255.255.0 media autoselect" > ifconfig_tx0_alias0="inet 209.53.238.30 netmask 255.255.255.0" > ifconfig_tx0_alias1="inet 209.53.238.31 netmask 255.255.255.0" > > while the .11 address works fine, the .30 &.31 addresses do not. > (I've tried several available IP's, 29, 30, 31, 32). [.....] > any ideas what may be wrong? Your netmasks conflict. Use 255.255.255.255 for the alias addresses if they're on a network that already has a route to it. > -- > Jim Pazarena mailto:paz@ccstores.com > http://www.qcislands.net/paz -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message