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To: Carstea Catalin <carstea.catalin@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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At 12:55 AM 8/28/2005, Carstea Catalin wrote:
>i can't setting-up alias at my interface em0.
>Why?
>netmask 0xfffffff8 can't work?!
>ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): file exists

If the alias is on the same network as the primary IP address, the 
alias has to use a netmask of 255.255.255.255.

-Glenn




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