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Date:      Tue, 17 Oct 1995 17:13:46 -0400
From:      "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kern/785: 2.0.5-950622-SNAP Various ifconfig alias problems
Message-ID:  <9510172113.AA04070@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199510172048.OAA07972@rocky.sri.MT.net>
References:  <199510171950.MAA04955@freefall.freebsd.org> <199510172048.OAA07972@rocky.sri.MT.net>

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<<On Tue, 17 Oct 1995 14:48:43 -0600, Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net> said:

> Is there anyway that ifconfig could be hacked to always use a netmask of
> 0xffffffff when alias was specified to avoid all of these kind of error
> reports?  Is there *any* time when an alias is used when the netmask is
> not all 1's?

Yes.  Believe it or not, the code was not originally written to
support `fake hosts'.  It was originally written to support `multiple
logical IP subnets on a single wire'.

-GAWollman

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