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From: rsanders@interbev.mindspring.com (Robert Sanders)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with ifconfig alias
Date: 08 Aug 1995 18:03:08 -0400
Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc.
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In-reply-to: Terry Lambert's message of 8 Aug 1995 18:41:34 GMT
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On 8 Aug 1995 18:41:34 GMT, Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> said:

> Is there a good reason that the 0xffffffff netmask should not
> *ALWAYS* be implied by the use of the "alias" keyword?

Well, that's probably the most common case by far, but sometimes you
have two IP networks on the same wire (interface).  In that case, the
netmask of the alias should be the netmask of the second network.

Regards,
  -- Robert