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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 09:20:06 +0200
From: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net>
To: Christopher Weimann <cweimann@k12hq.com>
Cc: Michael Meltzer <mjm@michaelmeltzer.com>,
	Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>,
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Subject: Re: unable to alias more than 1 ip address in a subnet
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On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 04:36:09PM -0400, Christopher Weimann wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:11:47PM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> > 
> > for instance, ifconfig(8) doesn't say anything about netmasking
> > .255 for aliases.
> > 
> 
> %uname -r
> 4.3-STABLE
> 
> Snipped from man 8 ifconfig....
> 
>      alias   Establish an additional network address for this interface.  This
>              is sometimes useful when changing network numbers, and one wishes
>              to accept packets addressed to the old interface.  If the address
>              is on the same subnet as the first network address for this in-
>              terface, a netmask of 0xffffffff has to be specified.

oops! my apology. I've read the man page but didn't see that...
maybe too tired when I've read it ?

Cyrille.
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Cyrille Lefevre                 mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net

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