From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 27 16: 1:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A54737B41C for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:00:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 28 Feb 2002 00:00:44 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 00:00:44 +0000 From: David Malone To: "David A. Koran" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig aliases Message-ID: <20020228000044.GA91125@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 03:51:04PM -0500, David A. Koran wrote: > Did somebody make a change to the syntax of how the ifconfig aliases > (eg. "ifconfig_fxp0_alias1="inet some.ip.addr.ess netmask > some.net.mask.num") work? As far as I knew, if an IP alias is in the same network as a previous IP address which the machine has then the netmask must be given as 255.255.255.255. This is to prevent the creation of a duplicate route to the network. This has always been the advice given on the mailing lists, I think. Can you point me to some docs which say otherwise? If so they probably need to be updated. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message