Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:22:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com> To: akl@wup.de, andreas@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2, ping to an ip alias for interface vx0 fails ... Message-ID: <199707231622.LAA00741@main.gbdata.com> In-Reply-To: <19970723120431.25710@wup.de> from Andreas Klemm at "Jul 23, 97 12:04:31 pm"
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Andreas Klemm wrote:
> Hi !
>
> Little trouble with our companies FreeBSD www server (2.2-STABLE
> from about 2 weeks ago).
>
> Am about creating a virtual www server.
>
> For this purpose I created an IP alias for the interface vx0
>
> vx0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> inet 149.237.200.7 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 149.237.200.255
> inet 149.237.200.100 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 149.237.200.255
^^^^^^^^
Set this netmask to 255.255.255.255. The config on a sub net gets the
standard netmask. All ifconfigs thereafter get all 1s...
> inet 149.237.31.7 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 149.237.31.255
> ether 00:60:97:17:3d:0e
> lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>
> As you can see, three IP aliases are bound to vx0.
>
> And now comes a strange error. Only pings to 149.237.200.100
> fail !!! Is there a possible +-1 problem ???
>
> Pings to 149.237.200.7 and 149.237.31.7 are always successfull.
>
> Is maybe alias[0] not initialized ???
>
> Andreas ///
>
Gary
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