Freebsd 5.0 NICs issue

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 04:04, Amandeep Pannu wrote:
> ifconfig em1 alias inet 205.229.165.8 netmask 255.255.255.255
>
> Can I?

Not sure, I would expect you'd get complaints from ARP because both NIC's are 
on the same segment.

> I need the other NIC for some internal operations.

Errm.. Why do they need to be on the same subnet? Are they connected to the 
same ethernet segment? Are you trying to do bridging?

ie more details please :)

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