Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 22:11:47 +0200 From: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net> To: Michael Meltzer <mjm@michaelmeltzer.com> Cc: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>, freebsd stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: unable to alias more than 1 ip address in a subnet Message-ID: <20020625201147.GB11513@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <004d01c21c63$5ce70820$34f820c0@ix1x1000> References: <200206242356.JAA12574@lightning.itga.com.au> <20020625003023.GA2654@gits.dyndns.org> <004d01c21c63$5ce70820$34f820c0@ix1x1000>
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On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:14:20PM -0400, Michael Meltzer wrote: > I know this might have come up, but is their any reason that the netmask on > a alias would not be 255.255.255.255. ? > > Its very unintuitive right now. To the point of sentencing many to > frustration. I would subject a message from ifconfig with -alias && netmask > !255.255.255.255 > "Warning: for an -alias most likely your netmask should be > 255.255.255.255, see ifconfig(8), use -s to turn warning off". for instance, ifconfig(8) doesn't say anything about netmasking .255 for aliases. in fact, I'm just noticing that .0 works 'til a few week (month?), but not anymore. so, the machine hung whenever I try to start netscape w/o touching anything. until yesterday, I guessed it was the fault to netscape (-linux) or linux_base while in fact, it's something else. in other words, this is anoying a lot. PS : could someone try netscape-linux (4.79) w/ a proxy to a wrong IP addr to see if the machine also hang ? Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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