From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 22 7: 5:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebsdportal.com (freebsdportal.com [63.106.140.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F58237B404 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 07:05:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jfreeze@localhost) by freebsdportal.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1MF4WU13983 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 10:04:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jfreeze) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 10:04:32 -0500 From: Jim Freeze To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: /etc/netstart reverses aliases Message-ID: <20020222100432.A13961@freebsdportal.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 Hi: I have the following in my /etc/rc.conf file: ifconfig_sis0="inet 63.106.140.203 netmask 255.255.255.248" ifconfig_sis0_alias0="inet 63.106.140.204 netmask 255.255.255.248" Running ifconfig -a reports: inet 63.106.140.203 netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 63.106.140.207 inet 63.106.140.204 netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 63.106.140.207 After I initially added this alias, I restarted the network by running /etc/netstart That worked. But when I tried it the second time things stopped working (ie, my http access to these addresses stopped.) I checked ifconfig -a and it reported: inet 63.106.140.204 netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 63.106.140.207 inet 63.106.140.203 netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 63.106.140.207 The two addresses were reversed. I re-ran netstart and the order reversed back to its original and all was right with the universe. Can someone explain why this happens? Thanks -- Jim Freeze "Give some people an attoparsec and they'll take 16.093 Tera-angstroms" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message