From cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com Mon Jun  7 11:23:23 PDT 1999
> > 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.

I'll try this. Thanks again. Looking at the FAQ, I thought in order
to get aliasing working, one needed to have a netmask of all 1s.


Ken
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