Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 23:00:21 +0200 From: Gunnar Flygt <flygt@sr.se> To: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: unable to alias more than 1 ip address in a subnet Message-ID: <20020625230021.A82180@sr.se> In-Reply-To: <20020625201147.GB11513@gits.dyndns.org>; from cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net on Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:11:47PM %2B0200 References: <200206242356.JAA12574@lightning.itga.com.au> <20020625003023.GA2654@gits.dyndns.org> <004d01c21c63$5ce70820$34f820c0@ix1x1000> <20020625201147.GB11513@gits.dyndns.org>
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On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:11:47PM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:14:20PM -0400, Michael Meltzer wrote:
> > I know this might have come up, but is their any reason that the netmask on
> > a alias would not be 255.255.255.255. ?
> >
> > Its very unintuitive right now. To the point of sentencing many to
> > frustration. I would subject a message from ifconfig with -alias && netmask
> > !255.255.255.255
> > "Warning: for an -alias most likely your netmask should be
> > 255.255.255.255, see ifconfig(8), use -s to turn warning off".
>
> for instance, ifconfig(8) doesn't say anything about netmasking
> .255 for aliases.
bash-2.05a$ 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.
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