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Date:      Sat, 06 Jun 1998 18:50:54 +0400
From:      Alex Povolotsky <tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru>
To:        "Kurt Jones" <kurt@woftam.com.au>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with IP Aliasing 
Message-ID:  <199806061450.SAA00677@minas-tirith.pol.ru>
In-Reply-To: Your message "Sat, 06 Jun 1998 23:15:23 %2B1000." <002201bd914d$2bf0c2b0$620e08cb@enterprise.woftam.com.au> 

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 <002201bd914d$2bf0c2b0$620e08cb@enterprise.woftam.com.au>"Kurt Jones" writes:
>I have placed the following in rc.local:

>ifconfig_ed2_alias1="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.255"
>
>When I ping the specified address I get:
>
>ping: sendto: Host is down
>
>What have I done wrong?
>
>By the way, I am sure it ddi work once!

It pings OK from outside, but not from inside. Add static route your alias address to 127.0.0.1.

Alex.


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