ifconfig netmask problem
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
des at des.no
Wed Jun 23 09:03:47 GMT 2004
"Dan Piparo" <dan at danworld.net> writes:
> What I really want to know, what is the proper netmask for an alias IP
> address for the latest FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE version. Did it change for some
> reason?
"it depends"
if the alias is on the same subnet as an existing address (whether on
that interface or another) it must have an all-bits-one netmask to
avoid routing ambiguity.
if it is on a different subnet, it should have the correct netmask for
that subnet.
DES
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