From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 26 17:33:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shell.xecu.net (shell.xecu.net [208.241.7.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 868BE153D1 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:33:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andy@xecu.net) Received: from localhost (andy@localhost) by shell.xecu.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA02839 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:33:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell.xecu.net: andy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:33:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Andy Dills To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problem with ifconfig aliases Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (Please reply to me directly, as I'm not subscribed to this list. Thanks.) I have two machines: reseller3# uname -a FreeBSD reseller3.safepages.com 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 15 11:08:08 GMT 1999 jkh@usw3.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 reseller2# uname -a FreeBSD reseller2.safepages.com 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 15 11:08:08 GMT 1999 jkh@usw3.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 I have no problems bringing up IP aliases on reseller2, using this as my command: ifconfig ep0 inet netmask 255.255.255.248 alias However, whenever I try to do this on reseller3, I get: reseller3# ifconfig ep0 inet 208.244.234.134 netmask 255.255.255.248 alias ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists It then shows up in the ifconfig -a: ep0: flags=8847 mtu 1500 inet 208.244.234.132 netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 208.244.234.135 inet 208.244.234.134 netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 208.244.234.135 ether 00:20:af:1b:0c:97 However, the ip address is unpingable or unreachable in any way. This is not the case with reseller2, which is running the same release (as shown above) and is using the same type of ethernet card. Does anybody have any suggestions as to how I can correct or debug this? Andy ---------------------------------------------------- Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Network Administrator Fax 301-620-9634 Xecunet, LLC www.xecu.net ---------------------------------------------------- Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message