From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 24 13:32:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA4B137B401 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:32:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from enterprise.thenetnow.com (enterprise.thenetnow.com [65.39.193.152]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C865743FE3 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:32:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grant@thenetnow.com) Received: from grant (dslb121.ody.ca [216.240.5.121]) by enterprise.thenetnow.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id h5OKLdM59419 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 16:21:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from grant@thenetnow.com) Message-ID: <005b01c33a8f$b3f0e870$6401a8c0@grant> From: "Grant Peel" To: Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 16:32:15 -0400 Organization: The Net Now MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: ifconfig and Postoffice X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Grant Peel List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 20:32:19 -0000 Hi all. A number of days back I had asked a question about IPaliasing and ifconfig. One of the answers I got was correct, but took a while for me to prove it out. The question was: If I have multiple IPs from a different network, should I be using the new netmask, or the book value of 255.255.255.255? The answer is both (as some had mentioned) Use the correct netmask for the first IP in the new network, then use 255 for all the rest in that network. I am using webmin which confused the issue somewhat. My appologies for the confusion. Another question about this though: in my rc.conf file, I have the IPs listed numericly by subnet, then IP (from that subnet). When I add them with ifconfig, they get jumbled in the order (if I do an ifconfig to view them), any ideas on how to keep them in order? The second question revolves around out postoffice. I am currently using MailReader. nph-mr.cgi. Every once in a while, I get runaway processes. Almost always 5 or 10 of them running at the same time, sending my 1-5-15 minusage to 10+. Has anyone else seen this? - if so, was it always an aol user that started it in motion? Is there a way to limit specific perl processes? -Grant Grant W. Peel Server Admin grant@thenetnow.com http://thenetnow.com