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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with ifconfig alias
Date: 8 Aug 1995 18:41:34 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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Message-ID: <408b4u$bf3@park.uvsc.edu>
References: <400tlf$5na@alpha.aladdin.co.uk> <402kj1$jv6@nnrp1.primenet.com> <407abb$puq@buffnet2.buffnet.net>
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shovey@buffnet.net (steve hovey) wrote:
] : >>:bash# /sbin/ifconfig ed1 alias 193.119.96.55
] : >>:ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists
] : >>:^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Weird error message what file
] : >>
] : >> Try using a 0xffffffff netmask on your alias:
] : >>
] : >>ifconfig ed1 193.119.96.55 netmask 0xffffffff alias
] : >
] : >Works fine, thanks a lot for the reply
] : >
] :
] : I would like to try this as well. I am willing to shamelessly copy this
] : example, but I would prefer to understand all the applications for this
] : feature.
]
] I hit this error and just ussied the command twice to get it to take.
] Perhaps this is my tcp/ip problem with the web. Hmm...
Is there a good reason that the 0xffffffff netmask should not
*ALWAYS* be implied by the use of the "alias" keyword?
If not, this should be fixed.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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