From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 7 09:12:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA16134 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 09:12:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from link.cpt.nsc.iafrica.com (q6UkSfDW1FNn9fqgJ3vgQKL3cjNswyR6@link.cpt.nsc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA16123 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 09:12:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from khetan@link.freebsd.os.org.za) Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by link.cpt.nsc.iafrica.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA04208; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 19:12:01 +0200 (SAT) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 19:12:01 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar X-Sender: khetan@link.cpt.nsc.iafrica.com Reply-To: Khetan Gajjar To: Mark Segal cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ifconfig & 2nd IP address - weird... In-Reply-To: <34B255C6.F4160FE8@club-web.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Mark Segal wrote: >> I'd not seen this mentioned anywhere - or if I did it must have been long >> forgotten... >> >It's a bug in freebsd (not sure if it has been documented.. but it's >just past on :).. every aliased ip after the first one has to have a >netmask of 255.255.255.255 (or 0xffffffff)... I simply add to rc.local route add ip.add.re.ss -interface lo0 Is there something inherently wrong in that ? --- Khetan Gajjar (!kg1779) khetan@iafrica.com (w); khetan@os.org.za (h) http://www.os.org.za/~khetan | Finger: khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za UUNET Internet Africa Support | FreeBSD enthusiast-www2.za.freebsd.org The system requirements said Windows 95 or better; so I installed FreeBSD.