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Date:      Sat, 18 Aug 2001 11:58:30 +0200
From:      Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>
To:        "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
Cc:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re[2]: Host unable to  ping/access its own IPs
Message-ID:  <43219332423.20010818115830@buz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20010817130451.B306@blossom.cjclark.org>
References:  <20010817141401.C9633-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> <89159908005.20010817192806@buz.ch> <20010817130451.B306@blossom.cjclark.org>

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Hello Crist,

Friday, August 17, 2001, 10:04:51 PM, you wrote:

> FreeBSD does not like the ambiguity. If you have a.b.c.10 and
> a.b.c.11 on a 0xffffff00 network, which one will be used as the
> source address when you try to connect to a.b.c.12? To eliminate
> the ambiguity, one address is the "primary" one with 0xffffff00 and
> the second (and any others) is an "alias" with the 0xffffffff mask.


Ah ok, that makes sense. Now it might be better if ifconfig simply
set
the netmask to ffffffff when there's already an IP in the same subnet
and just says it did so...


Best regards,
 Gabriel
on”Ö\Ï3X'

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