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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't traceroute to virtual hosts Date: 18 May 1996 22:39:44 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4nljjg$1l5@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4mhaeg$f8@venus.os.com> <4mjnl4$hgn@paperboy.livenet.net> <4mkakq$51s@uriah.heep.sax.de> <JUN.96May13143649@ns.sinfony.ad.jp> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E jun@sinfony.ad.jp (Junichi Kurokawa) wrote: > >> >ifconfig de0 inet alias x.x.x.x netmask 0xffffffff > > >> > >> Try this instead > >> > >> ifconfig de0 inet alias x.x.x.x 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 > > J> Don't do this. > > Then what to do? What the original poster did (first line of my quote): use the netmask 0xffffffff for all aias addresses in the same (sub-)net as any other address. Only one address per (sub-)net should have the actual netmask set. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)