From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 20 6:57: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FDDA37B424 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 06:57:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.3) with SMTP id f3KDsqp24874; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:54:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <002101c0c9a1$502b5a70$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Ralph Robinson" , References: <20010420134505.27362.qmail@web14204.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: ifconfig Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:53:43 -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 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have added: > ifconfig_ed1_alias0="192.168.254.251 netmask > 255.255.255.0 " > To the rc.conf file. The first address for this one is > .250 > From itself I can ping 192.168.254.250 but not > 192.168.254.251. > Computer #2 can ping either address. > On boot I get an error: > ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists error. > > Any hints out there? Use netmask 0xffffffff (255.255.255.255) for aliases which are on the same subnet. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message