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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-----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
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