From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 16 6:28:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38F2137B401 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 06:28:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from molson.wixb.com (molson.wixb.com [67.36.82.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7393843E75 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 06:28:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@xpec.com) Received: from coors.xpec.com (wifi-coors.wixb.com [10.135.144.15]) by molson.wixb.com (8.12.6+Sun/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAGESbgZ000281 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 08:28:37 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20021116082511.00b26508@molson.wixb.com> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 08:28:32 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "J.D. Bronson" Subject: question on IP alias/broadcast In-Reply-To: <058f01c28d76$22296230$020aa8c0@morpheous> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I setup an alias statment in rc.conf and it seems to work fine.. but I have a question on the broadcast IP: em0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=3 inet 192.168.100.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.100.255 inet 192.168.100.4 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 192.168.100.4 ether 00:a0:9d:23:0b:f6 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active Why isnt the alias broadcast set to .255 ? I didnt explicitly set the broadcast in rc.conf, and while I could I wanted to see if I should?! Thanks! -- J.D. Bronson Aurora Health Care // Information Systems // Milwaukee, WI USA Office: 414.978.8282 // Fax: 414.328.8282 // Pager: 414.603.8282 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message