Re: Quick question about IP aliasing

[Josef Karthauser]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 07:16:14AM +0100, Rogier R. Mulhuijzen wrote:
>
> >The point is that you need to use a netmask of 255.255.255.255 for aliased
> >IPs on FreeBSD, regardless of the alias of the primary (non-alias) IP.
> 
> Everybody is saying use 255.255.255.255 for an alias. Noone is giving 
> reasons why.

I don't understand this either.  To my mind it's a bug if it doesn't
work with the full netmask for an IP alias address.

Joe

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