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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
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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. ;-)