Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 08:58:48 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org> Cc: Steve Fettig <lists@stevenfettig.com>, f-q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: setting up IP aliases in rc.conf Message-ID: <20020509075848.GA5768@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020508171046.015990b8@pop3s.schulte.org> References: <3E3C4010-62A3-11D6-84FE-000502E29155@shire.net> <5.1.0.14.2.20020508171046.015990b8@pop3s.schulte.org>
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On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:13:36PM -0500, Christopher Schulte wrote: > At 04:58 PM 5/8/2002 -0500, Steve Fettig wrote: > ><snip> > >It's surprising what one can learn when trying to answer the questions of > >others! Now I know why my aliases beyond alias0 never worked (because of > >the netmask), but I wanted to ask the question: Why does the netmask have > >to > >be all 1's (i.e. 255.255.255.255) for additional addresses when those > >addresses would not otherwise be entered that way? I am asking because I > >don't understand what makes the alias different than the single IP... > > A 15 second search produces: > > http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=fa.ijraokv.1riqagp%40ifi.uio.no&output=gplain "Otherwise it doesn't work" isn't really the answer that Steve was looking for, I'd hazard. A better answer is here : http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-questions&m=100818653932698&w=2 Ceri -- get the cool shoe shine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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