Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:52:18 -0500 From: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> To: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Wendell Martins Borges <wendell@ramenzoni.com.br> Subject: Re: aliases not working in em0 Message-ID: <4975D712.2080101@ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: <20090120134733.GB22114@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> References: <5F259223-D531-4E25-9814-C0C90250707D@ramenzoni.com.br> <20090120134733.GB22114@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>
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Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:12:45AM -0200, Wendell Martins Borges wrote:
>
>> ifconfig_em0="inet 192.168.112.1 netmask 255.255.255.0"
>> ifconfig_em0_alias0="inet 192.168.112.181 netmask 255.255.255.255"
>
> I don't know if this can be the cause of your problem, but
> the /32 netmask for aliases has been deprecated quite a while
> ago.
For how long? On a 7.0-R box, it works ok with a /32 prefix len:
%ifconfig
re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
ether 00:0f:b5:80:53:85
inet 208.70.104.210 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 255.255.255.192
inet 208.70.104.211 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 255.255.255.255
inet6 2607:f118::b6 prefixlen 64
inet6 2607:f118::b7 prefixlen 64
media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
%ping 208.70.104.211
PING 208.70.104.211 (208.70.104.211): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 208.70.104.211: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.079 ms
^C
I'll try it on one of my 7.1 boxes to see if I can reproduce the OP's issue.
Steve
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