From owner-freebsd-net Wed Feb 28 7:39:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 617A237B718 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 07:39:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.9.3) with SMTP id f1SFbMi18995; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:37:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <002a01c0a19c$bd692a90$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Luigi Rizzo" , "Josef Karthauser" , "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" Cc: "Jonathan Graehl" , References: <200102280156.CAA29214@info.iet.unipi.it> <4.3.2.7.0.20010228083627.0233f3c0@mail.drwilco.net> Subject: Re: Quick question about IP aliasing Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:40:04 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > > > 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 =) That's partly my fault, as I wasn't aware that you are to use the real subnet when your aliased IP is on a different subnet. At least I'm straightened out now :) -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message