Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 14:14:58 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: "Joe T." <auximini@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with ifconfig aliases Message-ID: <20020608141458.1d12b1cb.brian@Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: <20020607003631.46478.qmail@web10105.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020607003631.46478.qmail@web10105.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 17:36:31 -0700 (PDT), "Joe T." <auximini@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Originally, I had created some aliases with the following command:
>
> # ifconfig dc0 alias 192.168.1.111 255.255.255.255
> # ifconfig dc0 alias 192.168.1.112 255.255.255.255
You forgot the netmask keyword. The missing keyword means that it tries
to use 255.255.255.255 as the destination address and silently fails as
the interface isn't a pointopoint interface.
The failure is due to conflicting host route entries because you didn't
give the correct netmask.
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian.somers@sun.com>
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