From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 13:52:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2645A1065714 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:52:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: from ibctech.ca (v6.ibctech.ca [IPv6:2607:f118::b6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A952E8FC24 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:52:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 84877 invoked by uid 89); 20 Jan 2009 14:06:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?IPv6:2607:f118::5?) (steve@ibctech.ca@2607:f118::5) by 2607:f118::b6 with ESMTPA; 20 Jan 2009 14:06:27 -0000 Message-ID: <4975D712.2080101@ibctech.ca> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:52:18 -0500 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Patrick M. Hausen" References: <5F259223-D531-4E25-9814-C0C90250707D@ramenzoni.com.br> <20090120134733.GB22114@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> In-Reply-To: <20090120134733.GB22114@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Wendell Martins Borges Subject: Re: aliases not working in em0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:52:37 -0000 Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:12:45AM -0200, Wendell Martins Borges wrote: > >> ifconfig_em0="inet 192.168.112.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" >> ifconfig_em0_alias0="inet 192.168.112.181 netmask 255.255.255.255" > > I don't know if this can be the cause of your problem, but > the /32 netmask for aliases has been deprecated quite a while > ago. For how long? On a 7.0-R box, it works ok with a /32 prefix len: %ifconfig re0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=9b ether 00:0f:b5:80:53:85 inet 208.70.104.210 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 255.255.255.192 inet 208.70.104.211 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 255.255.255.255 inet6 2607:f118::b6 prefixlen 64 inet6 2607:f118::b7 prefixlen 64 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX ) status: active %ping 208.70.104.211 PING 208.70.104.211 (208.70.104.211): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 208.70.104.211: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.079 ms ^C I'll try it on one of my 7.1 boxes to see if I can reproduce the OP's issue. Steve