From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 6 14:11:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mrout2.yahoo.com (mrout2.yahoo.com [216.145.54.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 454C237B42A for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 14:11:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoot.corp.yahoo.com (zoot.corp.yahoo.com [216.145.52.89]) by mrout2.yahoo.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/y.out) with ESMTP id g46LAaE05140; Mon, 6 May 2002 14:10:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dougb@localhost) by zoot.corp.yahoo.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g46LAVQF013058; Mon, 6 May 2002 14:10:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 14:10:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton To: Erich Zigler Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Unable to alias IP's in 4.5 In-Reply-To: <200205061243.38680.erichz@superhero.org> Message-ID: <20020506140949.O13051-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 6 May 2002, Erich Zigler wrote: > It seems from FreeBSD version 4.5 on I am unable to alias IP addresses to a > NIC card if the IP I am trying to alias has the same netmask as the > previously bound IP. All aliases should have the netmask of 255.255.255.255, regardless of what the netmask of the base IP is. -- "We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory." - George W. Bush, President of the United States State of the Union, January 28, 2002 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message