From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Feb 17 21:06:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA17537 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 21:06:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from cold.org (cold.org [206.81.134.103]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA17531 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 21:06:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (brandon@localhost) by cold.org (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id WAA14082; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 22:06:51 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 22:06:51 -0700 (MST) From: Brandon Gillespie To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which way is 'correct'? (was: Re: Aliases) In-Reply-To: <28199.856225398@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > ifconfig ed0 alias x.y.z netmask 255.255.255.255 > > arp add x.y.z 127.0.0.1 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Not needed. > > So the ed0 case eliminates an extra arp call. I suppose you could > thusly deem it superior, but either method works so I also wouldn't go > to the trouble of changing an existing system. :-) Erm.. Previous to 2.2 I'd say this worked fine. But after my upgrade to 2.2 (actually, just a clean install) doing just the ifconfig no longer worked... Actually, it would work at first, but then it wouldn't work. Doing the arp would fix the problem. Why? I have no idea--I'm just a monkey hitting keys at this point. -Brandon Gillespie