Subject: Re: IP aliases and access on the same system
To: Richard Pennington <rich@introl.com>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/15/2001 22:28:10
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Richard Pennington wrote:

> 192.124.43.90 netmask 0xffffffe0 media 100BaseTX-FDX
> 192.124.43.89 alias netmask 0xffffffe0
> 192.124.43.88 alias netmask 0xffffffe0
> 192.124.43.87 alias netmask 0xffffffe0
> 192.124.43.70 alias netmask 0xffffffe0
> 
> but the IPs aren't available until I manually add the routes.

Looking again at the /etc/rc.d/network script, this is not done.

> Should these routes be added by ifconfig? It seems like they should.

I have only used /etc/ifaliases on my systems and from looking at
/etc/rc.d/network (and /etc/netstart) the route is set up for them (and if
using rc.conf's ifaliases_*).

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/