netbsd-help: Re: IP aliases and access on the same system

Subject: Re: IP aliases and access on the same system
To: Richard Pennington <rich@introl.com>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/17/2001 11:15:28

>Hmm. My ifconfig.ex0 is:
>
>192.124.43.90 netmask 0xffffffe0 media 100BaseTX-FDX
>192.124.43.89 alias netmask 0xffffffe0
>192.124.43.88 alias netmask 0xffffffe0
>192.124.43.87 alias netmask 0xffffffe0
>192.124.43.70 alias netmask 0xffffffe0
>
>but the IPs aren't available until I manually add the routes.

since all these addresses are in the same subnet, you ought to be able
to just change the netmasks on the aliases to 255.255.255.255 (aka
0xffffffff) and then the routes should show up properly.

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