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Date:      Fri, 21 May 1999 15:18:52 +0200
From:      Matthias Meyser <Matthias.Meyser@harz.de>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ifconfig_if0_alias?
Message-ID:  <19990521151852.A21259@xenetserver.harz.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990520133018.22203A-100000@roble2.roble.com>; from Roger Marquis on Thu, May 20, 1999 at 01:47:13PM -0700
References:  <19990520160813.A15580@infoteam.com> <Pine.GSO.3.96.990520133018.22203A-100000@roble2.roble.com>

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On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 01:47:13PM -0700, Roger Marquis wrote:
> Another problem with FreeBSD aliases is routing.  For reasons which are
> not clear "ifconfig alias" doesn't automatically create a local route
> to the IP.  With FreeBSD 2.2.8 and earlier at least this must be done
> manually:
> 
>   for h in $aliases1; do
>   	route add 207.246.84.$h 127.0.0.1
>   done

no. if you specify a netmask of 255.255.255.255 it works without setting
the route manually. 

CU 
   matthias
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