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Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 20:24:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Jeff Ehrenkrantz <admin@gccomm.net>
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Subject: Re: possible netmask problem  2nd pass
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On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Jeff Ehrenkrantz wrote:

> >>         inet 207.8.142.145 netmask 0xffffffff
> 
> >No, take out this alias.  A loopback route will be added automatically.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Well bummers this output is from the ifconfig -a  not what i plunked into
> rc.conf.
> but just to make certain i removed the netmask from the rc.conf anyway .
> Here is the clip from rc.conf and output as a result.
> network_interfaces="ed0 lo0" # List of network interfaces (lo0 is loopback).
> ifconfig_ed0="inet 207.8.142.138  netmask 255.255.255.0"
> ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" # default loopback device configuration.

Comment out this line:

> ifconfig_lo0_alias0="inet 207.8.142.145" # Sample alias entr

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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