From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 25 13:36:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.k12us.com (mail.k12us.com [65.112.222.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F10F037B401 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 13:36:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 98526 invoked by uid 1001); 25 Jun 2002 20:36:09 -0000 Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 16:36:09 -0400 From: Christopher Weimann To: Cyrille Lefevre Cc: Michael Meltzer , Gregory Bond , freebsd stable Subject: Re: unable to alias more than 1 ip address in a subnet Message-ID: <20020625163609.A90689@mail.k12us.com> References: <200206242356.JAA12574@lightning.itga.com.au> <20020625003023.GA2654@gits.dyndns.org> <004d01c21c63$5ce70820$34f820c0@ix1x1000> <20020625201147.GB11513@gits.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020625201147.GB11513@gits.dyndns.org>; from cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net on Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:11:47PM +0200 X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses by AMaViS 0.2.1 (http://amavis.org/) 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 Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:11:47PM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > > for instance, ifconfig(8) doesn't say anything about netmasking > .255 for aliases. > %uname -r 4.3-STABLE Snipped from man 8 ifconfig.... alias Establish an additional network address for this interface. This is sometimes useful when changing network numbers, and one wishes to accept packets addressed to the old interface. If the address is on the same subnet as the first network address for this in- terface, a netmask of 0xffffffff has to be specified. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message