From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Sep 10 11:18:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA03242 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:18:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i-gw.dalsys.com (i-gw.dalsys.com [207.42.153.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA03236 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:18:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by i-gw.dalsys.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id NAA25345 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 13:18:35 -0500 Received: from dev.dsc.dalsys.com(199.170.161.3) by i-gw.dalsys.com via smap (V1.3) id sma025343; Tue Sep 10 13:18:25 1996 Received: from richards.dsc.dalsys.com by dev.dsc.dalsys.com (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/8.6.12) id AA62214; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 13:28:08 -0500 Message-Id: <3235CD8F.409D@herald.net> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 13:20:31 -0700 From: Richard Stanford Reply-To: richards@herald.net Organization: Herald Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: isp@freebsd.org Subject: IP aliassing. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk When specifying IP aliases, I seem to be able to get to them correctly whether I specify de0 (network interface) or lo0 as the interface to alias. Most of the examples I have seen use the ethernet IF as the one to alias ... is there a reason for this? If the lo0 shouldn't work, I must be doing something wrong ... if it is supposed to work, would it increase overhead as opposed to the de0 approach? Or reduce it? TIA! -Richard