Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 11:12:10 -0400 From: Terry Zink <tzink@metrocon.com> To: "Lavender, Ben" <LavenderB@nctldno.navy.mil> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: interface aliases and routing Message-ID: <01070211121002.22407@coldstone.metrocon.com> In-Reply-To: <78202F9B9BB8D311846100805F577DFF274093@nctams01.nctldno.navy.mil> References: <78202F9B9BB8D311846100805F577DFF274093@nctams01.nctldno.navy.mil>
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Hrm. I believe if I;m not mistaken, that aliases on the nic need to have a netmask of 255.255.255.255 .. At least, that is what I need to do. Might wish to try that. On Monday 02 July 2001 10:42, you wrote: > I have a FreeBSD 4.2 box currently running. Im trying to get interface > aliases to work properly without much success. > > While I seemingly get the interface configured properly, I can't > communicate with different subnets. The interface and the alias can both > communicate with other machines on the same subnet, but only the 'primary' > address (in this case, 1.72) will talk with other subnets. > > any ideas/information required? > > ifconfig: > xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet6 fe80::210:5aff:fe28:ca1f%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > inet 164.229.1.72 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 164.229.1.127 > inet 164.229.1.74 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 164.229.1.127 > ether 00:10:5a:28:ca:1f > media: autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active > supported media: autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX > 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP 100baseTX <hw-loopback> > lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > faith0: flags=8000<MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280 > gif1: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280 > gif2: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280 > gif3: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280 > lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 > inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8 > inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 > ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 552 > > > > Ben Lavender > System Administrator, Newsouth Communications > NCTAMS LANT DET NOLA ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- Regards, Terry Zink System Administrator Metrocon Communications Phone: (212) 661-6800 x 1553 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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