From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Sep 11 09:18:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA12235 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 09:18:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA12208; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 09:18:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crevenia.parc.xerox.com ([13.2.116.11]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <15953(1)>; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 09:11:39 PDT Received: from localhost by crevenia.parc.xerox.com with SMTP id <177595>; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 09:09:14 -0700 To: Jos Vissers cc: questions@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why does arp not work when ip-alias installed In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 11 Sep 96 05:07:04 PDT." <199609111207.OAA11744@monet.telebyte.nl> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 09:09:02 PDT From: Bill Fenner Message-Id: <96Sep11.090914pdt.177595@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199609111207.OAA11744@monet.telebyte.nl> you write: >We have a network with several Livingston portmaster and a >cisco router as gateway. Most of the dial-up ip addresses are on >the same class c network as the servers and therefore arp -a >should give the ethernet address of the portmaster for an >address that is in use. > >It does on machines without an ip-alias. >It doesn't on machines with ip-aliases. Are machines with IP aliases still able to contact these hosts? What does "netstat -nr" show on the machines with aliases? Could you give us a more complete description of your configuration, including the commands that you use to add the aliases and the "netstat -nr" from both the working machines and the non-working machines? Thanks, Bill