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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can't traceroute to virtual hosts
Date: 5 May 1996 16:05:00 GMT
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zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont) wrote:

> >ifconfig de0 inet alias x.x.x.x netmask 0xffffffff

> That netmask looks a bit funny. You're saying that all the bits of
> the address are significant for network and none for host.

The netmask is okay -- you can only have one address per logical
network with the real netmask.

I think tracerouting them used to be broken until very recently, but
that's not a big deal.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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