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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.etri.re.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!news.mathworks.com!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: 5 May 1996 16:05:00 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4mijjc$sb9@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4mhaeg$f8@venus.os.com> <4mhsqd$dv6@itchy.serv.net> 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 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 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)