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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Multiple IP address Date: 12 Nov 1995 14:45:46 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <484tqa$jna@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <47pjkm$mq3@eon.ecco.com> <47ukut$j0n@kaleka.seanet.com> <47vtgd$fc7@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Stefan Esser <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE> wrote: >Use the "alias" modifier in the >ifconfig parameter list, and do >not forget to specify a netmask >of 0xffffffff. Well, actually, the netmask 0xffffffff is *only* necessary when you're assigning multiple IP addresses out of the same (sub)net to your interface! If you're going to assign an alias for a different subnet, use whatever netmask is appropriate then. This allows for different subnets on the same wire. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)