Date: Sun, 05 May 1996 20:00:52 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Craig Shrimpton <craigs@venus.os.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why must I ifconfig my virtual hosts twice? Message-ID: <12455.831322852@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 05 May 1996 14:27:38 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.91.960505142106.13728A-100000@venus.os.com>
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Craig Shrimpton wrote in message ID
<Pine.BSF.3.91.960505142106.13728A-100000@venus.os.com>:
> First, thanks to everyone that replied. I tried using 0xffffffff and it
> works without complaint but if I use 255.255.255.255 netmask a traceroute to
> the virtual domain will fail. The traceroute will time-out at the last hop
> before the virtual host machine.
> Is there a way to fix that? I would like traceroutes to work. Obviously
> they are not necessary for a successful implementation but they are
> important nonetheless.
root@thud:~> uname -r
2.2-CURRENT
root@thud:~> ifconfig -a
ed0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 204.216.27.13 netmask 0xfffffff0 broadcast 204.216.27.15
inet 204.216.27.8 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 204.216.27.8
ether 00:00:c0:fd:ce:44
(the .8 is the alias address)
root@palmer:~> traceroute 204.216.27.8
traceroute to 204.216.27.8 (204.216.27.8), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
[...]
11 T1-CDROM-00-EX.US.CRL.NET (165.113.118.2) 527.870 ms 464.640 ms 459.004 ms
12 * 204.216.27.8 (204.216.27.8) 469.606 ms *
root@palmer:~> traceroute 204.216.27.13
traceroute to 204.216.27.13 (204.216.27.13), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
[...]
11 T1-CDROM-00-EX.US.CRL.NET (165.113.118.2) 447.766 ms 564.703 ms 528.755 ms
12 thud.FreeBSD.ORG (204.216.27.13) 447.888 ms 427.158 ms 478.726 ms
Seems to work for me ... unfortunately the only 2.1 box I can try it
on is my own and I don't have a subnet for it, just a single IP which
is routed to by my ISP, so I can't test it here :-( Is this a 2.1
problem?
Gary
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Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member
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