Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 13:09:31 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: Grant Peel <grant@thenetnow.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IP alias Networking Errors. Message-ID: <20030525130335.B23835-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <004c01c32268$78a49120$6401a8c0@grant>
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On Sat, 24 May 2003, Grant Peel wrote:
> I am not sure if I am answering my own question here, but after reading the
> man page, I got the impression, the new IPs should be assigned thier own
> proper subnet, in this case 224. When I tried that, the first one was
> accepted by ifconfig, but apache stopped showing the pages. Then, I tried
> adding 224 to all the other IPs (new ones that is) and ifconfig would not
> even accept them.
>
> When I set them back to netmask 255 everything seemed OK again. And I did
> read through man ifconfig again....
>
> So, I am back to this again.
>
> Name Type IP Address Netmask Status
> fxp0 Ethernet 65.39.193.154 255.255.255.240 Up
> fxp0:0 Ethernet (Virtual) 65.39.193.155 255.255.255.255 Up
> fxp0:1 Ethernet (Virtual) 65.39.193.156 255.255.255.255 Up
> fxp0:2 Ethernet (Virtual) 65.39.193.157 255.255.255.255 Up
> fxp0:3 Ethernet (Virtual) 216.187.107.125 255.255.255.255 Up
> fxp0:4 Ethernet (Virtual) 216.187.107.126 255.255.255.255 Up
> fxp0:5 Ethernet (Virtual) 216.187.107.123 255.255.255.255 Up
> fxp0:6 Ethernet (Virtual) 216.187.107.124 255.255.255.255 Up
> fxp1 Ethernet 192.168.0.3 255.255.255.0 Up
> lo0 Loopback 127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0 Up
Well, it seems that ifconfig wants only the first alias in a different
subnet to have the proper netmask, and all following to have 0xffffffff.
So, change just fxp0:3 (from above) to have a netmask 0xffffffe0.
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:{ andyf@speednet.com.au
Andy Farkas
System Administrator
Speednet Communications
http://www.speednet.com.au/
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