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From: ejung@hiway1.exit109.com (Edward Jung)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: aliased interface
Date: 18 Jul 1995 15:52:59 GMT
Organization: Atlantic Internet Technologies, Inc.
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I semi-successfully aliased the ethernet interface on my system to
respond to two different ip addresses. However, it only responds
to external hosts. If I'm on the system I can't ping the other aliased
ip addresses. However, from another machine on the network, I can
successfully ping any of the aliased interfaces.
All I did was:
ifconfig ef0 ww.xx.yy.zz alias
Pings from the same machine result in Host is Down messages.
Pings from other machines are successful.
I also noticed a gated log entry indicating that host ww.xx.yy.zz is
gatewayed through ef0. It seems like it may be in a self routing loop
where I send the packet, it comes back, I send it out again, it comes
back, ...
Any clues on how to stop it?
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Edward Jung Atlantic Internet Technologies, Inc.
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