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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.
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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.