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Date:      Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:50:02 -0300 (ADT)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Christian Kratzer <ck@cksoft.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ifconfig alias: File Exists
Message-ID:  <20041019164943.Y98762@ganymede.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041019214157.Y88138@vesihiisi.cksoft.de>
References:  <20041019162521.N98762@ganymede.hub.org> <20041019214157.Y88138@vesihiisi.cksoft.de>

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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Christian Kratzer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
>> 
>> Why would I be getting:
>> 
>> # ifconfig fxp0 alias 200.46.204.9
>> ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists
>> 
>> when I know for a fact that it hasn't been configured?
>
> you should use a netmask of 255.255.255.255 for ipv4 aliases.
>
> 	ifconfig fxp0 alias 200.46.204.9 netmask 255.255.255.255

Is that new?  You are right, that fixed it, but didn't think I had to do 
that before :(

Thanks ...

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy@hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664



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