Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:51:48 +0800 From: "Daniel Marsh" <daniel@stiw.org> To: "Martin McCormick" <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtual Interfaces and Subnet Masks Message-ID: <op.ssuswmpgjjurwa@dmarsh.djcarmichael.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200506240251.j5O2pGT3047748@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <200506240251.j5O2pGT3047748@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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Why don't you just setup an IP alias for the fxp0 interface? ie: ifconfig_fxp0_alias0="inet 192.168.1.7" On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:51:16 +0800, Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote: > We needed to bring up a second interface on a FreeBSD system > in order to cause it to substitute for another FreeBSD box that > bravely stayed up for 471 days and then appears to have had a > hardware failure of some kind. > > The substitute system already had fxp0 on the network in > question and when I brought up fxp1 on that same network, the > nightmare started. You can't seem to have two interfaces with the > same subnet mask on the same VLAN. After much frustration, I simply > changed the primary interface to be that of the dead host and we are > doing without the original address for now. > > The network mask is 255.255.252.0. Is there any way to have > more than one interface on the same subnet with that same subnet mask? > > Thank you. > > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK > OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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