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Subject: Re: IP aliases not working...Any ideas welcome!
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On Saturday, Jun 28, 2003, at 21:00 US/Pacific, Keith Spencer wrote:

> Hi all,
> I seek to add 30 or so aliases to an extrenal NIC
> But a ping and and ifconfig -a
> only shows the first 2 IPs bound to the NIC the rest
> of the 210.15.203.xxx ips are ignored...
> I am sure it is something obvious but what?
> Thanks
> Keith

The correct netmask for a second alias within a subnet is 
255.255.255.255.  I don't make the news, I just report it.

KeS