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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!vertex.tor.hookup.net!hookup!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!sandmann.prz.tu-berlin.de!loch.in-brb.de!bluesprings.in-brb.de!not-for-mail From: nuggets@bluesprings.in-brb.de (Lars Hentschke) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Multiple IP Addresses on same Machine Date: 27 Feb 1996 07:05:00 +0100 Organization: Brandenburg Individual Network e.V. Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4gu6uc$e5t@bluesprings.in-brb.de> References: <312D11C8.41C67EA6@telstra.net> <4gtqoi$f3q@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bluesprings.in-brb.de X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Keith Sklower (sklower@oboe.CS.Berkeley.EDU) wrote: : Wayne Farmer <wayne@telstra.net> wrote: : }ifconfig "network_interface" inet a.b.c.d netmask 255.255.255.255 alias strange ... ifconfig de0 inet a.b.c.d netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast a.b.c.255 configures the net-interface correctly, so that a "broadcastping" let answer all reachable machines. that's ok. ifconfig de0 inet a.b.c.d netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast a.b.c.255 alias e.f.g.h configures the interfaces with a broadcastadress e.f.g.h and a broadcastping onto a.b.c.255 dont work. that's not good, because the manpage allows it. ifconfig de0 inet a.b.c.d netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast a.b.c.255 ifconfig de0 alias e.f.g.h netmask 0xffffff00 only these two commands to the right for both subnets. Will this be corrected for 2.2 ? :) Lars.