On 8/5/07, Claudio Jeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 04:16:05PM -0700, Greg Thomas wrote: > > On 8/4/07, L. V. Lammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > At 10:40 PM 8/4/2007 +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > > > # ifconfig > > > > > > > >add -A to show all aliases. > > > > > > Bingo - I must have missed that somehow!! > > > > > > > Also note this from the hostname.if man page: > > net alias 10.0.1.15 255.255.255.255 > > > > Not having the /32 subnet mask may be why the alias is showing in > > ifconfig output but the primary address isn't. > > > > The reason for this is a different one. Interface routes are all added to > the routing table. The /32 route for the alias is necessary because the > real network is already in the table. Additionally it helps choosing the > main interface address for outgoing traffic (instead of an alias) because > the network route points to the main interface address. > Interface aliases are a bit of a mess because of all these side-effects.
Cool, thanks for the info. Greg -- Ticketmaster and Ticketweb suck, but everyone knows that: http://ticketmastersucks.org Dethink to survive - Mclusky
