From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 25 14: 1: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.sr.se [134.25.0.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE07B37B405 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 14:00:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from honken.sr.se (honken.sr.se [134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5PL0Or62747; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 23:00:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5PL0Odg096801; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 23:00:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: (from root@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g5PL0OU82232; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 23:00:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.11.6/8.11.1av) id g5PL0L082220; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 23:00:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 23:00:21 +0200 From: Gunnar Flygt To: Cyrille Lefevre Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: unable to alias more than 1 ip address in a subnet Message-ID: <20020625230021.A82180@sr.se> Reply-To: Gunnar Flygt Mail-Followup-To: Gunnar Flygt , Cyrille Lefevre , FreeBSD Stable References: <200206242356.JAA12574@lightning.itga.com.au> <20020625003023.GA2654@gits.dyndns.org> <004d01c21c63$5ce70820$34f820c0@ix1x1000> <20020625201147.GB11513@gits.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020625201147.GB11513@gits.dyndns.org>; from cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net on Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:11:47PM +0200 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:11:47PM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:14:20PM -0400, Michael Meltzer wrote: > > I know this might have come up, but is their any reason that the netmask on > > a alias would not be 255.255.255.255. ? > > > > Its very unintuitive right now. To the point of sentencing many to > > frustration. I would subject a message from ifconfig with -alias && netmask > > !255.255.255.255 > > "Warning: for an -alias most likely your netmask should be > > 255.255.255.255, see ifconfig(8), use -s to turn warning off". > > for instance, ifconfig(8) doesn't say anything about netmasking > .255 for aliases. bash-2.05a$ uname -r 4.6-STABLE bash-2.05a$ 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 interface, a non-conflicting netmask must be given. Usually 0xffffffff is most appropriate. i.e. Same here as in 4.3-STABLE > > 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 -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message