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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!kiss.demon.co.uk From: phil@zipmail.co.uk (Phil Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ip aliasing Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 17:00:41 GMT Organization: Lan Systems Lines: 21 Message-ID: <813430816.2768@kiss.demon.co.uk> References: <44pjfu$2o7@news.cerf.net> <44rkir$d3n@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: phil@zipmail.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: kiss.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: kiss.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: >This is a FAQ now. Use "netmask 0xffffff00" (or whatever is >appropriate) for the first IP address, and "netmask 0xffffffff" for >all aliases that happen to be in the same (sub)net as the primary one. >-- This is probably not appropriate in here but I have to ask <WHY> Is this a work-around or is it the correct way to do things, It just seems a bit strange cause your class A/B/C hasn't changed so I would have thought that the netmask would be the same for all addresses. I know a ffffffff netmask works as I am using it myself but I just wondered..... Cheers Phil