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Date:      Mon, 17 Feb 1997 22:06:51 -0700 (MST)
From:      Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Which way is 'correct'? (was: Re: Aliases) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.970217220512.14077A-100000@cold.org>
In-Reply-To: <28199.856225398@time.cdrom.com>

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On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> >     ifconfig ed0 alias x.y.z netmask 255.255.255.255
> >     arp add x.y.z 127.0.0.1
>       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Not needed.
> 
> So the ed0 case eliminates an extra arp call.  I suppose you could
> thusly deem it superior, but either method works so I also wouldn't go
> to the trouble of changing an existing system. :-)

Erm.. Previous to 2.2 I'd say this worked fine.  But after my upgrade to
2.2 (actually, just a clean install) doing just the ifconfig no longer
worked... Actually, it would work at first, but then it wouldn't work.
Doing the arp would fix the problem.  Why?  I have no idea--I'm just a
monkey hitting keys at this point.

-Brandon Gillespie




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