From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 7 7:18:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (n2000039.telekabel.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9312F14D4B for ; Sat, 7 Aug 1999 07:18:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA51670; Sat, 7 Aug 1999 16:18:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <37AC3FE4.A5FE43B0@nisser.com> Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 16:17:08 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alejandro Ramirez Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ARP message flood References: <37AB6A4D.2AAC926A@nisser.com> <001701bee066$a9d754a0$fca3f9cf@megared.net.mx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alejandro Ramirez wrote: > > > ifconfig_ep1_alias0="inet 194.134.130.170 194.134.128.1 netmask > 255.255.252.0" > > ^^^^^^^^^^^ > This shouldnt be here, your line should look like this: > > ifconfig_ep1_alias0="inet 194.134.130.170 netmask 255.255.252.0" Tx, but... Why? The manpage doesn't say anything like that. To wit: SYNOPSIS ifconfig interface address_family [address [dest_address]] [parameters] dest_address Specify the address of the correspondent on the other end of a point to point link. The following parameters may be set with ifconfig: alias Establish an additional network address for this interface. This is sometimes useful when changing network numbers, and one wishes to accept packets addressed to the old interface. netmask mask (Inet only) Specify how much of the address to reserve for subdi- viding networks into sub-networks. The mask includes the network ... Also, it works as advertised. It's only the ARP messages I could do without. Well, that and a working static route through the aliassed IP . Furthermore, if I take the destination address out it does not work. At least I do remember being forced to muck about till it worked. If anything I believe I should add yet another parameter as in: -arp Disable the use of the Address Resolution Protocol. However, since this is mostly uncharted territory for me I thought I'd better ask first . Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message