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Date:      Thu, 15 May 2003 11:00:02 +0200
From:      Thomas Spreng <spreng@socket.ch>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: jail
Message-ID:  <20030515090002.GA16590@rock.stable.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20030515084310.GA76063@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <Law9-F52ka4ZxNIeA8U000216c2@hotmail.com> <20030515071046.GA13951@rock.stable.ch> <20030515084310.GA76063@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>

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On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 09:43:10AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 09:10:46AM +0200, Thomas Spreng wrote:
> > hi,
> > 
> > > 2) I am having trouble connecting jail to the internet.
> > > here is an output of my ifconfig
> > > harry@requiem:/home/harry# ifconfig rl0
> > > rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> > >        inet 209.94.197.222 netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast 209.94.197.223
> > >        inet6 fe80::230:f1ff:fe44:9768%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> > >        inet 192.168.1.223 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
> > >        ether 00:30:f1:44:97:68
> > >        media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP)
> > >        status: active
> > 
> > afaik, inet aliases need a netmask of 0xffffffff.
> 
> Usually you'ld be quite right in saying that, but unfortunately in
> this case I'm afraid it is not correct.  The rule is that the second
> and subsequent addresses from any particular netblock get a netmask of
> 0xffffffff.  In this case, where the alias address comes from a
> different netblock to the original address (so that the alias is the
> first address from that netblock) it gets the natural netmask as the
> original poster showed.

of course! you're right. sorry for the confusion :)

cheers



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