From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 9 11:06:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA05513 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 11:06:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.DPCSYS.com [209.25.4.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA05508 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 11:06:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id TAA04601; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 19:06:24 GMT Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 11:06:23 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: "Sean J. Schluntz" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig alias problem/question. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 8 Mar 1997, Sean J. Schluntz wrote: > Doug White wrote: > > Change this to 'ifconfig ep0 inet xxx.xxx.xxx.bbb netmask 255.255.255.255 > > alias' and it should work. > > I can't make the netmask *.255, it has to be *.192 for my segmented network or > I won't make it through the firewall. :( Sure it will. The ifconfig statement for the non-aliased IP already setup the route. The alias entry sets up a host route, that's all you need. Really :) > (I am going to be upgrading this > system to 2.2 when that goes -R) Good plan but it won't make any difference re the aliased IP's. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82