Multi-homed system in FreeBSD 4.9

[Barney Wolff]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 05:13:30PM -0600, Jason A. Crome wrote:
> 
> Hate to sound dumb, but this is my first time setting up a multi-homed
> system in FreeBSD.  I can get the box working just fine with one network
> adapter, but the second adapter will not take an IP address.  Using dmesg
> and ifconfig, I can see the card just fine. . . .  There doesn't appear to
> be anything wrong other than the card not showing the IP I have assigned it.
> 
> The box is using 2 3Com 3c905C network cards.  I have verified that both
> cards work in other PCs.  I am attempting to assign one card the IP
> 192.168.0.1 and the other 192.168.0.2 (using /stand/sysinstall) in an
> attempt to monitor traffic across my network.  Any insight that can be
> offered up would be of great assistance :-)

You can't assign two addresses in the same subnet.  If you insist on
doing that, assign the second one as 192.168.0.2/32.  (In sysinstall,
specify the netmask as 255.255.255.255)  But really, why do you think
you need to do this?

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