Subject: Re: ifconfig alias trouble
To: Scott Drassinower <scottd@cloud9.net>
From: Tom Samplonius <tom@haven.uniserve.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/10/1995 22:19:47
On Tue, 9 May 1995, Scott Drassinower wrote:
> Has anyone else experienced trouble getting packets to other subnets
> on the same network after using ifconfig alias with netbsd-1.0? Everything
> runs fine for a while (an hour or so), and then 2 out of 4 subnets become
> unreachable. The only way to solve this is a reboot. Is this a known
> problem, or a problem with the way I am running ifconfig
> (ifconfig ed2 newmachinename alias)?
>
> I suspect this is a bug because it is easily reproducible, and
> happens after about the period of time