North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Router with 2 (or more) interfaces in same network
> You _used_ to be able to do this (oh, over two years ago?). The address > was assigned to the interface, and the error from trying to add a duplicate > route was simply ignored, no route got added anywhere. You can figure out > when the change was made by examining the code or by seeing when the > maillists started to get flooded by people who could no longer do, > > # ifconfig if0 inet 10.0.0.1 > # ifconfig if0 alias 10.0.0.2 > > When they meant, > > # ifconfig if0 inet 10.0.0.1 > # ifconfig if0 alias 10.0.0.2 netmask 0xffffffff There is a difference, of course - Cisco is perfectly happy to let you do int fa0 ip addr 10.0.0.1 255.255.255.0 ip addr 10.0.0.2 255.255.255.0 secondary I never could understand why this should be impossible in FreeBSD. But I guess this discussion is no longer NANOG relevant :-) Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, [email protected]
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