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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!sandmann.prz.tu-berlin.de!loch.in-brb.de!bluesprings.in-brb.de!not-for-mail From: nuggets@bluesprings.in-brb.de (Lars Hentschke) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Multiple IP Addresses on same Machine Date: 1 Mar 1996 07:15:31 +0100 Organization: Brandenburg Individual Network e.V. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4h64m3$sni@bluesprings.in-brb.de> References: <312D11C8.41C67EA6@telstra.net> <4gtqoi$f3q@agate.berkeley.edu> <4gu6uc$e5t@bluesprings.in-brb.de> <4h5idl$9nq@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bluesprings.in-brb.de X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Keith Sklower (sklower@oboe.CS.Berkeley.EDU) wrote: : In article <4gu6uc$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. Yes, it's also works correctly without an extra broadcast clause. : }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? If you use ifconfig to set an ip-address and an alias-ip-address in one command, wether the ip nor the alias works correctly. Perhaps in this case an errormessage would be nice or discard the alias-part and set the first ip-interface correctly. Lars.