From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Aug 7 17:13:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from db.nexgen.com (db.nexgen.com [66.92.98.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A780237B403 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 17:13:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ml@db.nexgen.com) Received: (qmail 2305 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2001 00:12:31 -0000 Received: from localhost.nexgen.com (HELO alexus) (root@127.0.0.1) by localhost.nexgen.com with SMTP; 8 Aug 2001 00:12:31 -0000 Message-ID: <002401c11f9f$4d129890$0100a8c0@alexus> From: "alexus" To: "Marius Strom" , "Colin Campbell" Cc: References: <001501c11f94$c54b1ea0$0d00a8c0@alexus> <20010807184317.Q1013@marius.org> Subject: Re: (OT) Re: another ip as alias on NIC doesn't work properly Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 20:15:58 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2479.0006 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2479.0006 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marius Strom" To: "Colin Campbell" Cc: "alexus" ; Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 7:43 PM Subject: (OT) Re: another ip as alias on NIC doesn't work properly > Can this thread be clobbered until we get some realistic troubleshooting I would *love* to provide you with any kind of information related to this issue, i just don't know what else to provide you with I post my ifconfig, routing table, irc client, detailed problem what else? > information here? I think 99.9% of people on this list do agree that i'm sure it does, it works fine on my other boxes.. > 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