From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 13 16:34:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pawn.primelocation.net (pawn.primelocation.net [205.161.238.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9282737B9D4 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 16:34:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdf.lists@fxp.org) Received: by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix, from userid 1016) id F18479B3E; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:34:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E601DBA11; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:34:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:34:34 -0400 (EDT) From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" X-Sender: cdf.lists@pawn.primelocation.net To: Loren Koss Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Still having problems with NIC alias.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Loren Koss wrote: > Only the primary IP address will respond on the network. Why is > this?? The alias IP will respond if I ping it from the box itself. But > wont respond if I ping from the network its attached to or through the > other nic i have in the box.. > > Diagram > > --------------| rl0 a.b.c.d (primary ip) 192.168.1.1 rl1 |----------- > Internet a.b.c.e (alias ip) Internal Net > Without knowing what command/rc.conf entry you are using to create the alias, it is difficult to determine the problem. However: a) is the alias's netmask 255.255.255.255 (if on the same network as the primary)? b) firewalling rules? c) sunspots? ----- Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message