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Date:      Fri, 23 Jan 1998 07:35:19 -0600
From:      eculp <eculp@ver1.telmex.net.mx>
To:        Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
Cc:        isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IP address aliases...
Message-ID:  <34C89C97.15FB7483@ver1.telmex.net.mx>
References:  <34C88CD1.7AFAF4DF@tdx.co.uk>

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Karl Pielorz wrote:
> 
> A while ago I asked about this subject - and was correctly told that secondary
> / additional addresses bound to an interface under FreeBSD (I'm using 2.2.2 &
> 2.2.5) have to have a netmask of 0xffffffff (255.255.255.255).
> 
> What happens if I have to do the following:
> 
> ep0: 192.168.100.1 netmask 255.255.255.242
> 
> then I want to add:
> 
> ep0: 10.10.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.252  ***** alias

I use 
# ifconfig ep0 inet 10.10.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.252 alias
It's worked fine for me since one of my ethernet cards
died about three months ago :-) two networks on the same 
cable, same card, I still haven't bought another card :-)

provecho

ed
> 
> (above are obviously fake addresses)
> 
> Do I still have to munge the netmask on the second address to 255.255.255.255?
> - or is this a 'different' case as the 2 IP numbers are in fact on completely
> different networks? (i.e. not adding a 2nd IP address on the same network as
> the first)?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Karl Pielorz



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