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To: Cassandra Perkins <cassy@loop.com>
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From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: IP aliassing. (fwd) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Sep 1996 16:30:23 PDT."
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Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 23:51:36 -0400
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Cassandra Perkins wrote in message ID
<Pine.BSF.3.91.960904163009.28041A-100000@patty.loop.net>:
> Can anyone explain why a netmask of 255.255.255.255 is required for 
> aliased IPs.

Because a route already exists for that network (the addresses the
interface was originally ifconfig'd with) so you need to establish a
HOST route, not a network route...

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
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