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Date:      Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:29:14 +0300
From:      Oleg Cherevko <olwi@fb-n.l.org.ua>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ifconfig alias: same subnet netmask question
Message-ID:  <4E0B44CA.9060504@fb-n.l.org.ua>
In-Reply-To: <4E0B406D.8070406@fb-n.l.org.ua>
References:  <4E0B406D.8070406@fb-n.l.org.ua>

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On 29.06.2011 18:10, Oleg Cherevko wrote:
> Are there any drawbacks in setting aliases like this:
> 	ifconfig em0 inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00
> 	ifconfig em0 inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xffffff00
> instead of traditional:
> 	ifconfig em0 inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00
> 	ifconfig em0 inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xffffffff
> (again, for more or less recent FreeBSD versions)?

Sorry, the above examples should read:
     ifconfig em0 inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00
     ifconfig em0 inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xffffff00 alias
and
     ifconfig em0 inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00
     ifconfig em0 inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xffffffff alias
of course.

-- 
Olwi



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