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Subject: Re: Why two cards on the same segment...
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 17:09:50 -0500
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> I cannot believe its random. On the other hand (haven't tried this in
FBSD,
> but in Solaris it works),
> if you assign an interface like this:
>
> ifconfig ed0 inet 204.120.165.1 netmask 0xffffff00
> ifconfig ed0 inet 204.120.165.2 netmask 0xffffff00

Second line should read:

ifconfig ed0 inet 204.120.165.2 netmask 0xffffff00 alias

sorry for any confusion.

>
> It will randomly choose one of those addresses (assuming a gateway within
> that subnet).
>
> -Steve
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