Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 11:13:03 +1000 (EST) From: Alan Sawyer <frooky@sx.com.au> To: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Ip aliasing with Freebsd. Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980701111120.24525L-100000@southx.sx.com.au> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980630132300.malte@webmore.com>
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On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Malte Lance wrote: > > On 30-Jun-98 Alan Sawyer wrote: > > Hi, wondering if you can help me. > > What I would like to do is lets say I have 2 class C addresses on my LAN. > > I would like the BSD machine to have an address for each, and communicate > > to the hosts's on each class C via the ip of the respective hosts. > > > > Okay, setting up an interface > > ifconfig ep0 inet 203.19.222.6 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias > > ifconfig ep0 inet 203.19.222.6 netmask 255.255.255.0 alias > > Thats all. No "route add ..." > Maybe you want to enable forwarding in your "/etc/rc.conf" file. > Hi,pardon my lack of knowledge in this area but how do I do that? I cant find a mention of ip forwarding. Anyhoo, any idea why when I put the above line in sendmail crashes and telnetting to the machine from any class C except for 203.36.8.0 (its 'first' ip) takes a longtime? That is why I ended up aliasing all the other machines in the first place. Thanks again :() sorry to be a pain. Regards, Alan Sawyer. IRC @ Frooky. Systems/Network Administrator. Satlink Internet Services P/L I've used up all my sick days.... so I'm calling in dead. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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