Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 17:13:46 -0400 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/785: 2.0.5-950622-SNAP Various ifconfig alias problems Message-ID: <9510172113.AA04070@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199510172048.OAA07972@rocky.sri.MT.net> References: <199510171950.MAA04955@freefall.freebsd.org> <199510172048.OAA07972@rocky.sri.MT.net>
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<<On Tue, 17 Oct 1995 14:48:43 -0600, Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net> said: > Is there anyway that ifconfig could be hacked to always use a netmask of > 0xffffffff when alias was specified to avoid all of these kind of error > reports? Is there *any* time when an alias is used when the netmask is > not all 1's? Yes. Believe it or not, the code was not originally written to support `fake hosts'. It was originally written to support `multiple logical IP subnets on a single wire'. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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