From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 6 11: 5:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mikea.ath.cx (ip68-97-1-197.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.1.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DADBD37B403 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 11:05:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mikea.ath.cx (bsd [192.168.1.1]) by mikea.ath.cx (8.12.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g46I5Dx3011128; Mon, 6 May 2002 13:05:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mikea@mikea.ath.cx) Received: (from mikea@localhost) by mikea.ath.cx (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g46I5DuV011127; Mon, 6 May 2002 13:05:13 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 13:05:13 -0500 From: mikea To: Erich Zigler Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unable to alias IP's in 4.5 Message-ID: <20020506130513.A11098@mikea.ath.cx> Mail-Followup-To: mikea , Erich Zigler , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200205061243.38680.erichz@superhero.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200205061243.38680.erichz@superhero.org>; from erichz@superhero.org on Mon, May 06, 2002 at 12:43:38PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 12:43:38PM -0500, Erich Zigler wrote: > It seems from FreeBSD version 4.5 on I am unable to alias IP addresses to a > NIC card if the IP I am trying to alias has the same netmask as the > previously bound IP. > > I get nothing but a file exists error from ifconfig. > > I have been doing this since 3.4 so Im wondering what has changed. Possibly the change is in the code that should have been keeping you from doing that all along. That's certainly the case if the alias IP is in the same network as the original, non-alias IP. -- Mike Andrews mikea@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin since 1964 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message