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From: wayne@aarnet.edu.au (Wayne Farmer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Minor Multiple IPs/1 Interface Query
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 13:27:11 GMT
Organization: Telstra Internet
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I have set up multiple IPs with 1 ethernet interface as follows :

ifconfig ed0 inet a.b.c.d netmask 255.255.255.0 alias
route add a.b.c.d localhost

1) I found that I have trouble pinging localhost and in fact, using
Netscape to talk to the Apache server (1.0.2) produces a network
unavailable type error (so does another un-named server)  WWW browsing
from anywhere else seems fine

2) When ever I communicate with other machines on the local network,
console messages appear with something like :
/kernel  arplookup failure a.b.c.d not on local network

3) So I did :
arp -s [FWDN of a.b.c.d] "ethernet address"
to get rid of thse messsages on the other machines but still have
problems talking to myself

Any ideas ?