From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 9 14:33:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E561337B404 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 14:33:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postal3.es.net (postal3.es.net [198.128.3.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EE2843E65 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 14:33:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal3.es.net (Postal Node 3) with ESMTP id MUA74016; Wed, 09 Oct 2002 14:33:25 -0700 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F6145D06; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 14:33:22 -0700 (PDT) To: "Mike Grissom" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ifconfig In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 09 Oct 2002 14:21:51 PDT." <08a101c26fd9$e29c0fa0$0301a8c0@mikeyg> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 14:33:22 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20021009213322.9F6145D06@ptavv.es.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: "Mike Grissom" > Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 14:21:51 -0700 > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > > I was wondering if ifconfig will let you add aliases with different netmasks > cause I noticed that ifconfig enforces netmask 255.255.255.255 for aliases. > Does this only apply if the ips are on the same network? Yes. If the IP of an alias does not fall within the netmask of the "real" address assignment, then the appropriate netmask and not 0xffffffff should be used. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message