From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Feb 28 22:06:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA13020 for doc-outgoing; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 22:06:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from thorn.arces.net (thorn.arces.net [208.206.182.225]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA13007 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 22:06:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mail@localhost) by thorn.arces.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) id XAA18717 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 23:06:50 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: thorn.arces.net: mail set sender to using -f Received: from localhost(127.0.0.1) by thorn.arces.net via smap (V1.3) id sma018715; Fri Feb 28 23:06:49 1997 Message-ID: <3317C778.41C67EA6@arces.net> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 23:06:48 -0700 From: Monachus Silentium X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Potentially Confusing Doc Discrepancy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-doc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In the FAQ, under "How do i set up ethernet aliases?" it says to use a specific netmask. It has been my experience that you cannot alias unless you kill named first. If you don't, you get various ioctl errors about "file exists" and "cannot assign specified address".... Perhaps this is just my machine, since i have my whole subnet declared with hostnames, but it may be work mention... -- Monachus Silentium The catalyst loves the paradox.... The only reason I don't believe that I'm successful is that I'm not yet finished.