From owner-freebsd-isp Fri May 21 6:18:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from xenetserver.harz.de (xenetserver.harz.de [193.159.181.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F950153A4 for ; Fri, 21 May 1999 06:18:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Matthias.Meyser@harz.de) Received: (from matthias@localhost) by xenetserver.harz.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA21582; Fri, 21 May 1999 15:18:54 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19990521151852.A21259@xenetserver.harz.de> Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 15:18:52 +0200 From: Matthias Meyser To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig_if0_alias? References: <19990520160813.A15580@infoteam.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Roger Marquis on Thu, May 20, 1999 at 01:47:13PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message