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Date:      Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:48:55 -0500
From:      "Network Admin [JPeterson]" <jay@qtm.net>
To:        <cjclark@home.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Multiple IPs
Message-ID:  <PCEIIOODPEIJJFAGCCEFKEOKCCAA.jay@qtm.net>
In-Reply-To: <199912140438.XAA75917@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>

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Alright, thank you - for some reason I did not think it worked the last time
I tried to alias0 something off another class C but it worked this time =)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Crist J. Clark [mailto:cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 11:39 PM
> To: Network Admin [JPeterson]
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Multiple IPs
>
>
> Network Admin [JPeterson] wrote,
> > I know how to assign alias0 and such to my NIC. However, I have
> only done
> > this with IPs on the same class C..
> > We have a server:
> > 216.163.32.4 on a 255.255.255.0 network with a gateway of 216.163.32.1
> > and we need to also have this box answer to:
> > 206.53.233.50 MASK 255.255.255.0 GATEWAY 206.53.233.1
> > These two are on the same leg of our ethernet, just the wrong
> class Cs .. is
> > this possible to do with only one NIC? our next-best solution
> is going to be
> > a second NIC but I would rather not =)
>
> Good. Putting two (or more) NICs from one host on one segment is
> wrong, wrong! WRONG!
>
> *whew*
>
> Sorry about that. Glad you asked before you sent the classic post
> wondering why one NIC complains when it hears ARPs that the other NIC
> is supposed to be receiving.
>
> ifconfig(8) cares not if the addresses are on the same class C. In
> fact, to me, it is stranger that it works fine with multiple aliases
> where some aliases lie within the LAN of another.
> --
> Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com
>



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