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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
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