From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 18 2:55:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gamma.root-servers.ch (gamma.root-servers.ch [195.49.62.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0CF7037B410 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 02:55:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 37028 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2001 09:55:46 -0000 Received: from dclient217-162-128-224.hispeed.ch (HELO athlon550) (217.162.128.224) by 0 with SMTP; 18 Aug 2001 09:55:46 -0000 Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 11:58:30 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53bis) Educational Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <43219332423.20010818115830@buz.ch> To: "Crist J. Clark" Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Fernando Gleiser , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: Host unable to ping/access its own IPs 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 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' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5i iQEVAwUBO34uPMZa2WpymlDxAQGL/gf8DAyTwgHJhx0nNlUEK/xIyydnJPiPUihy WZ+53v2yHj6AAP2ZhCJv8Gu0rQsAuUnaVqz8yB2qBa5DDv90U1vL2PuY/Q6+Ntnq XK3NZpZIKIqS40DEyqlgip6ZeLmQNos0nB6ps6GmHT26UCDsT4vxB4al73q8MqHl HM8Q4CfYm+B8/DxbRNUN+0AAkt+S8SBnm9ZSIU+B9P6ms1JhHAUBj1xi7XW7C3At QaCJFOV5tI0Yux0hduOrGH5mAxM8DRJeuhtMC/B0YIeG3tRIdjqkNGy+ODgXhDwC FugnA33ROkWiLkbZZNioqkPs92W79DkBgXgyz2J0V9myN9d4/UbTOQ== =EuFK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message