netbsd-help: Re: Can't access aliased IPs on same box

Subject: Re: Can't access aliased IPs on same box
To: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/25/2001 21:48:58

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 06:41:05PM -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> Greetings again. I have a multihomed box. The /etc/ifconfig.fxp0 starts out:
> 
> inet a.b.c.39 netmask 255.255.255.224 media autoselect
> inet a.b.c.40 netmask 255.255.255.224 alias
> inet a.b.c.41 netmask 255.255.255.224 alias

When there is aliases on the same subnet as the primary IP, I would
recommend using 255.255.255.255 netmasks for aliases. This is what I
do and it works well.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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