aliases not working in em0
Miroslav Lachman
000.fbsd at quip.cz
Tue Jan 20 06:12:26 PST 2009
Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:12:45AM -0200, Wendell Martins Borges wrote:
>
>
>>ifconfig_em0="inet 192.168.112.1 netmask 255.255.255.0"
>>ifconfig_em0_alias0="inet 192.168.112.181 netmask 255.255.255.255"
>
>
> I don't know if this can be the cause of your problem, but
> the /32 netmask for aliases has been deprecated quite a while
> ago.
Can you point me to some doc about this?
Manpage for ifconfig still say: "If the address is on the same subnet as
the first network address for this interface, a non-conflicting netmask
must be given. Usually 0xffffffff is most appropriate."
Miroslav Lachman
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