From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 30 22:10:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA02086 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 22:10:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from quagmire.ki.net (root@quagmire.ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA02041 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 22:09:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by quagmire.ki.net (8.8.2/8.7.5) with SMTP id BAA16287; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 01:09:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 01:09:34 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Jeremy Sigmon cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ping failure to alias In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Jeremy Sigmon wrote: > > I have an aliased ip on my machine. > when I ping to the real one www.hsc.wvu.edu it works > when I ping to hscnet.hsc.wvu.edu it fails. > The outside world connects fine. It can only not talk to itself. > netstat -rn shows hscnet's gateway to be 127.0.0.1. > i am getting the error arpresolve on my error terminal. > i have tried arp -s hscnet.hsc.wvu.edu (ethernet addr) pub > but no help. > any ideas? I imagne this is something very very simple, but > I have evidently missed something in the man pages and my Nemeth. How are you setting up your alias? I've been using IP aliasing since 2.0.5 with no problems, setup as: ifconfig ed0 alias 205.150.102.14 netmask 255.255.255.255 Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org