Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 08:38:41 +0100 From: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <drwilco@drwilco.nl> To: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, "Luigi Rizzo" <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>, "Josef Karthauser" <joe@tao.org.uk> Cc: "Jonathan Graehl" <jonathan@graehl.org>, <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Quick question about IP aliasing Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.0.20010228083627.0233f3c0@mail.drwilco.net> In-Reply-To: <007901c0a13a$b4480dd0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <200102280156.CAA29214@info.iet.unipi.it>
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> > > > Everybody is saying use 255.255.255.255 for an alias. Noone is giving
> > > > reasons why.
>
>Exactly. I never got a good answer to this when I first stumbled upon it,
>and I still haven't. All I know is that this is the way it needs to be done
>in order for things to work properly.
Ok, I meant everyone is saying use 255.255.255.255 for an alias even if
it's on a different subnet. I've been preaching to use the real subnet when
the alias is on a different subnet from the start of this thread =)
DocWilco
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