From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Sep 10 15:22:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA19285 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 15:22:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA19271 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 15:22:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA19375; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 08:21:47 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 08:21:47 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: Richard Stanford cc: isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IP aliassing. In-Reply-To: <3235CD8F.409D@herald.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Richard Stanford wrote: > When specifying IP aliases, I seem to be able to get to them correctly > whether I specify de0 (network interface) or lo0 as the interface to > alias. Most of the examples I have seen use the ethernet IF as the one > to alias ... is there a reason for this? I use lo0 for my aliases, but then I have aliased an entire class C network with the web box as the "gateway" to that net. So I don't need the ethernet interface to arp for the IP address. If you are just using spare IP addresses from your ethernet network, then you will need to be able to arp for the IP's. Danny