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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Minor Multiple IPs/1 Interface Query
Date: 20 Feb 1996 00:33:01 GMT
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wayne@aarnet.edu.au (Wayne Farmer) writes:

> 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

This is a FAQ.

If you're going to abuse the `alias' feature for this kind of work,
add ``netmask 255.255.255.255''.  If you think about how the kernel
should send response packets, it will become rather obvious why you
need this.

(The original intent for the `alias' was to provide a means for
configuring an interface alias for a different network, and that's why
the weird netmask above ain't the default one.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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