Greetings,
I have 2 Redhat-9 servers that I'd like to migrate to FreeBSD in the
next 3 months. So I've set-up a test server (FreeBSD-4.9 STABLE) and
I'm in the midst of loading 3rd party applications (via ports) to test
their operation compared to the RH-9 servers.
I have a question about
Mike wrote:
# ifconfig -a
ed0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.40 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
# ifconfig ed0 alias 192.168.1.41 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast
192.168.1.255
ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists
[using same
Hello,
I found the reference to using the 255.255.255.255 netmask via Google,
however, I have Michael Lucas's book Absolute BSD and reference on
pages 103 104 (on IP aliasing) clearly show using the same netmask as
the real interface when creating IP aliases.
This book is blatantly wrong
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 08:40:18AM -0800, Mike wrote:
QUESTION: Why do I use a different netmask (255.255.255.255) for a IP
alias on FreeBSD? Why isn't 255.255.255.0 used?
It's all about routing of outgoing packets. Unlike linux, you can't
use the route(8) command to set up a route to a
Matthew Seaman wrote:
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 08:40:18AM -0800, Mike wrote:
QUESTION: Why do I use a different netmask (255.255.255.255) for a IP
alias on FreeBSD? Why isn't 255.255.255.0 used?
It's all about routing of outgoing packets. Unlike linux, you can't
use the route(8) command to