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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!usenet From: wayne@aarnet.edu.au (Wayne Farmer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Minor Multiple IPs/1 Interface Query Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 13:27:11 GMT Organization: Telstra Internet Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4fskf3$93t@fullofruit.aarnet.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: sdup4.telstra.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 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 route add a.b.c.d localhost 1) I found that I have trouble pinging localhost and in fact, using Netscape to talk to the Apache server (1.0.2) produces a network unavailable type error (so does another un-named server) WWW browsing from anywhere else seems fine 2) When ever I communicate with other machines on the local network, console messages appear with something like : /kernel arplookup failure a.b.c.d not on local network 3) So I did : arp -s [FWDN of a.b.c.d] "ethernet address" to get rid of thse messsages on the other machines but still have problems talking to myself Any ideas ?