Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 11:27:14 -0500 (EST) From: zoonie <zoonie@myhouse.com> To: eculp <eculp@ver1.telmex.net.mx> Cc: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP address aliases... Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980123112626.2333G-100000@nak.myhouse.com> In-Reply-To: <34C89C97.15FB7483@ver1.telmex.net.mx>
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i do the same thing also but i use the host mask (255.255.255.255) and it works ok for me but i do get occasional ARP error messages in my system log..... On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, eculp wrote: > 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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