Freebsd 5.0 NICs issue

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 06:47, Amandeep Pannu wrote:
> Now the em0 nic is up with 205.229.165.4 netmask 255.255.255.0
> ifconfig em1 inet 205.229.165.8 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

You can't have 2 NIC's on the same subnet (you can't have 2 IPs on any NIC in 
the same subnet).

Why do you want to do this? If you want an alias you only need 1 NIC and you 
do..

ifconfig em0 inet 205.229.165.4 netmask 255.255.255.0
ifconfig em0 alias inet 205.229.165.8 netmask 255.255.255.255

What is the second NIC going to be used for?

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