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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!sklower From: sklower@oboe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Sklower) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Multiple IP Addresses on same Machine Date: 1 Mar 1996 01:03:49 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4h5idl$9nq@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <312D11C8.41C67EA6@telstra.net> <4gtqoi$f3q@agate.berkeley.edu> <4gu6uc$e5t@bluesprings.in-brb.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: oboe.cs.berkeley.edu In article <4gu6uc$e5t@bluesprings.in-brb.de>, Lars Hentschke <nuggets@bluesprings.in-brb.de> wrote: } }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. Have you tried merely ifconfig de0 inet a.b.c.d netmask 0xfffff00 without the broadcast clause? All ones is supposed to be the default. }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. Well, I think the man page is wrong then. There was never any intent to have the ifconfig command set both a primary and secondary IP address simultaneously in a single invocation. }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 ? What, exactly needs to be corrected? The man page? The reporting of errors when adding an alias would try to add a redundant routing table entry?