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To: Jos Vissers <Jos.Vissers@telebyte.nl>
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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 <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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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