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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: Aliases on different subnets, How?
To: PLAZAS_CHRISTIAN@mercury.csg.peachnet.edu (Christian)
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:18:03 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <2BD20F7BDD@mercury.csg.peachnet.edu> from "Christian" at Jul 22, 96 05:12:48 pm
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Christian wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>     I have a FreeBSD box that I would like to create an alias for 
> that is on another subnet.  Both subnets are on the same physical 
> wire.  I have used this command:
> 
> ifconfig ed0 alias 168.26.195.19 netmask 255.255.255.0
                                                      ^^^^^^
	alias ip addresses must have a netmask of 255.255.255.255

jmb