Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 00:40:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com> To: Alan Sawyer <frooky@sx.com.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Ip aliasing with Freebsd. Message-ID: <XFMail.980707004034.malte@webmore.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980701111120.24525L-100000@southx.sx.com.au>
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Sorry Alan for the delay. Was kernel-hacking the last days. On 01-Jul-98 Alan Sawyer wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Malte Lance wrote: >> On 30-Jun-98 Alan Sawyer wrote: >> > Hi, wondering if you can help me. >> > What I would like to do is lets say I have 2 class C addresses on my LAN. >> > I would like the BSD machine to have an address for each, and communicate >> > to the hosts's on each class C via the ip of the respective hosts. >> > >> > Okay, setting up an interface >> > ifconfig ep0 inet 203.19.222.6 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias >> >> ifconfig ep0 inet 203.19.222.6 netmask 255.255.255.0 alias >> >> Thats all. No "route add ..." >> Maybe you want to enable forwarding in your "/etc/rc.conf" file. >> > > Hi,pardon my lack of knowledge in this area but how do I do that? > I cant find a mention of ip forwarding. Forwarding is flag-set in /etc/rc.conf Forwarding (as set in /etc/rc.conf) enables you do pass packets between networks through your gateway (host). > Anyhoo, any idea why when I put > the above line in sendmail crashes Which line ? Btw none of the above lines is expected to be included in /etc/sendmail.cf > and telnetting to the machine from any > class C except for 203.36.8.0 (its 'first' ip) takes a longtime? Try to describe your problem and your goal as simple as possible and as detailed as needed. > That is why I ended up aliasing all the other machines in the first place. > Thanks again :() sorry to be a pain. NP ... just need more info Malte. > > Regards, Alan Sawyer. IRC @ Frooky. > Systems/Network Administrator. > Satlink Internet Services P/L > I've used up all my sick days.... so I'm calling in dead. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com> Date: 06-Jul-98 Time: 23:48:46 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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