From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Aug 7 16:43:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from marius.org (cdm-208-219-120-coll.cox-internet.com [208.180.219.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2C5637B401 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 16:43:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marius@marius.org) Received: (from marius@localhost) by marius.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f77NhHb51866; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 18:43:17 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 18:43:17 -0500 From: Marius Strom To: Colin Campbell Cc: alexus , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: (OT) Re: another ip as alias on NIC doesn't work properly Message-ID: <20010807184317.Q1013@marius.org> Mail-Followup-To: Colin Campbell , alexus , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org References: <001501c11f94$c54b1ea0$0d00a8c0@alexus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from sgcccdc@citec.qld.gov.au on Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 09:09:39AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Can this thread be clobbered until we get some realistic troubleshooting information here? I think 99.9% of people on this list do agree that ethernet address aliasing does work on FreeBSD, and let's leave it at that. On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 09:09:39AM +1000, Colin Campbell wrote: > > question still remains... why wouldn't it work > > > > i mean ircing using 2nd ip > > I don't know. Maybe your irc software doesn't really do what it says it > does. Maybe the -H doesn't work if it's not a real interface. Why don't > you have a look at the code? It won't be that hard to work out what it > does with the -H option. Look for code around calls to "bind()". > > Colin > -- > Colin Campbell > Unix Support/Postmaster/Hostmaster > CITEC > +61 7 3006 4710 > > -- Marius Strom Professional Geek/Unix System Administrator URL: http://www.marius.org/ http://www.marius.org/marius.pgp 0xF5D89089 *updated 2001-02-26* It is a natural law. Physics tells us that for every action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. They hate us, we hate them, they hate us back and so, here we are, victims of mathematics. -- Londo, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message