Re: ifconfig aliases

[Lars Hansson <lars@unet.net.ph>]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 00:04:05 -0000
"scott brewerton" <scott@sporticia.com> wrote:

> your mask seems a little excessive !! try 255.255.255.0 for a full class C
> block network !!

Not really. 255.255.255.255 for aliases works for me.
I think I read somewhere that they should use 255.255.255.255.

dpe3$ifconfig -a
fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX)
        status: active
        inet 203.65.246.12 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 203.65.246.255
        inet 203.65.246.2 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 203.65.246.2
        inet 203.65.246.3 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 203.65.246.3
        inet 203.65.246.6 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 203.65.246.6

dpe3$route -n show  
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination      Gateway            Flags 
default          203.65.246.1       UG     
64.4.14.250      203.65.246.1       UGH    
64.4.22.250      203.65.246.1       UGH    
127.0.0.0        127.0.0.1          UG     
127.0.0.1        127.0.0.1          UH     
152.163.226.57   203.65.246.1       UGH    
152.163.226.89   203.65.246.1       UGH    
203.65.246.0     link#1             U      
203.65.246.1     0:50:ba:d6:7c:8a   UH     
203.65.246.2     127.0.0.1          UGH    
203.65.246.2     link#1             U      
203.65.246.3     127.0.0.1          UGH    
203.65.246.3     link#1             U      
203.65.246.6     127.0.0.1          UGH    
203.65.246.6     link#1             U      
203.65.246.10    0:6:5b:4:16:f8     UH     
203.65.246.11    0:4:ac:49:df:ec    UH     
203.65.246.12    127.0.0.1          UGH    
203.65.246.22    8:0:20:78:44:90    UH     
203.65.246.23    8:0:20:78:44:90    UH     
203.65.246.24    8:0:20:78:44:90    UH     
203.65.246.30    0:2:b3:3c:99:87    UH     
216.136.173.186  203.65.246.1       UGH    
224.0.0.0        127.0.0.1          U      

Lars Hansson