Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:28:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: john@yoafrica.com (John Oxley) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPs , Netmasks and Broadcast. Message-ID: <200509151428.j8FESXgT009075@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050915141904.GB52909@yoafrica.com>
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> > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 09:31:20AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > Anyway, all the aliases for any one NIC card must be 255.255.255.255. > > Not so. All aliases for any one NIC on the same network must be > 0xffffffff. If you have an alias which is on another network, then the > first alias on that network must use that networks netmask and then all > the other aliases on the same network use 0xffffffff. > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-virtual-hosts.html > > But when you have two different networks on one NIC, I think you may > have to do some routing (I'm lucky, I just do the routing on the Cisco > switches that all our servers are plugged into :). Well, I think you are getting in to complications that are beyond what the questioner asked. ////jerry > > Have a look at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-routing.html > > Also google for or dual homed or something like that. I > can't remember exactly what you have to do because I haven't done it in > so long. > > -John > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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