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From: sklower@oboe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Sklower)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: ifconfig alias and local ping problem
Date: 13 Jan 1996 03:26:11 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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References: <30F62E69.6FF7@cdepot.net>
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In article <30F62E69.6FF7@cdepot.net>,
Scott Taggart  <taggart@cdepot.net> wrote:
}I've got a machine that answers to two IP addresses (one using the 
}ifconfig alias option).  Everything works with the exception of the 
}a ping from the local machine to the aliased IP address.
}... not sure what commands I need to run to get the local ping to work  ..

Try
	# route add <alias> 127.1