From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 1 17:23:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailc.telia.com (mailc.telia.com [194.22.190.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A21FE37B405 for ; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 17:23:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailc.telia.com (8.11.2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f820NdT03179 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 02:23:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ertr1013.student.uu.se (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA00261 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 02:23:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 15607 invoked by uid 1001); 2 Sep 2001 00:23:15 -0000 Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 02:23:15 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Teo Carlsson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IFCONFIG ALIAS Message-ID: <20010902022315.A15586@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Teo Carlsson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 02:00:10AM +0200, Teo Carlsson wrote: > What is the best thing to do in /etc/rc.conf > > ifconfig_vr0_alias0="inet 111.111.111.111" > > or > > ifconfig_vr0_alias0="inet 111.111.111.111 netmask 255.255.252.0" > Neither probably. As I understand it aliases must have a netmask of 255.255.255.255, so you should use ifconfig_vr0_alias0="inet 111.111.111.111 netmask 255.255.255.255" -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message