From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 23 07:16:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA19411 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 07:16:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA19392 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 07:15:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id XAA09392; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 23:44:36 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707231414.XAA09392@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2, ping to an ip alias for interface vx0 fails ... In-Reply-To: <19970723131420.57273@sunny.wup.de> from Andreas Klemm at "Jul 23, 97 01:14:20 pm" To: andreas@sunny.wup.de (Andreas Klemm) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 23:44:36 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Andreas Klemm stands accused of saying: > > Hmm, I just noticed, that the broadcast address then looks a bit > strange: > inet 149.237.200.100 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 149.237.31.100 > > Should I then use the following command > > ifconfig vx0 149.237.200.100 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 149.237.200.255 alias > > Or should alias IP adresses not broadcast at all ? As far as I can tell, the broadcast attached to aliases is never used. > Thanks for further information. I hope this is not a RTFM question ;) It _should_ be. If it's not, you had better contribute to TFM! -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[