Routing issue

Nelis Lamprecht nelis at 8ball.co.za
Mon Jul 19 02:52:38 PDT 2004


On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 11:12, Web Walrus (Robert Wall) wrote:
> I just installed a secondary internet connection at my office, and I'm
> having a bizarre issue...
> 
> I have a network card - dc0
> 
> That network card has a config roughly like
> 
> ifconfig_dc0 inet 1.2.3.4 netmask 255.255.255.248
> ifconfig_dc0_alias0 inet 2.3.4.5 netmask 255.255.255.248
> defaultrouter="1.2.3.1"
> 

Read this page regarding adding aliases:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-virtual-hosts.html

You need to change your netmask for the alias to 255.255.255.255 if it's
on the same network.

Regards,
-- 
Nelis Lamprecht
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