From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 7 11:27:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A958B14E65 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 11:27:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id OAA16210; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:19:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199906071819.OAA16210@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Question about arp entry in /var/log/messages In-Reply-To: <199906071643.JAA10958@cup44ux.cup.hp.com> from Ken Lui at "Jun 7, 99 09:43:39 am" To: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:19:04 -0400 (EDT) Cc: cjclark@home.com, klui@cup.hp.com, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ken Lui wrote, > >From cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com Fri Jun 4 14:23:37 PDT 1999 > > But I am begining to believe what your want is all of the machines on > > one physical network, but the Macs and FreeBSD have both a 10- and > > 15-net address while the NeXT machines have just a 10-net address? If > > that is the case, you do not want an extra interface on the FreeBSD > > box. In that case, you just want to alias ed1 to both networks. > > I got a chance to try IP aliasing and it doesn't work right. I'm able > to ping my FreeBSD's 10.0.0.1 alias ethernet address but am unable > to ping my Macs on 10.0.0.4. So my thought is to live with these > messages. > > Thanks for everyone's help. > > FYI, the configuration I used was: > ifconfig_ed1="inet 15.75.136.174 netmask 255.255.248.0" > ifconfig_ed1_alias0="inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.255" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This netmask is telling the machine that it is the only host that is reachable on this net. To talk to 10.0.0.4, you'd need to losen up that last byte to at least 248, but since it is a 10-net, might as well use 255.255.255.0 or, heck, treat it like the class A adress it is, 255.0.0.0. > network_interfaces="ed1 lo0" > defaultrouter="15.75.136.169" -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message