From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 14 11:49: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from garcon.qtm.net (qtm.net [206.53.233.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B2EA14C3F for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 11:48:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jay@qtm.net) Received: from ENFORCER (enforcer.qtm.net [216.163.32.5]) by garcon.qtm.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id OAA25253; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:49:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Network Admin [JPeterson]" To: Cc: Subject: RE: Multiple IPs Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:48:55 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <199912140438.XAA75917@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alright, thank you - for some reason I did not think it worked the last time I tried to alias0 something off another class C but it worked this time =) > -----Original Message----- > From: Crist J. Clark [mailto:cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com] > Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 11:39 PM > To: Network Admin [JPeterson] > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Multiple IPs > > > Network Admin [JPeterson] wrote, > > I know how to assign alias0 and such to my NIC. However, I have > only done > > this with IPs on the same class C.. > > We have a server: > > 216.163.32.4 on a 255.255.255.0 network with a gateway of 216.163.32.1 > > and we need to also have this box answer to: > > 206.53.233.50 MASK 255.255.255.0 GATEWAY 206.53.233.1 > > These two are on the same leg of our ethernet, just the wrong > class Cs .. is > > this possible to do with only one NIC? our next-best solution > is going to be > > a second NIC but I would rather not =) > > Good. Putting two (or more) NICs from one host on one segment is > wrong, wrong! WRONG! > > *whew* > > Sorry about that. Glad you asked before you sent the classic post > wondering why one NIC complains when it hears ARPs that the other NIC > is supposed to be receiving. > > ifconfig(8) cares not if the addresses are on the same class C. In > fact, to me, it is stranger that it works fine with multiple aliases > where some aliases lie within the LAN of another. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message