In the last episode (Oct 26), Joe Auty said:
> Hello,
>
> I have a few IP aliases setup:
>
> em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
> ether 00:0c:29:79:d5:66
> inet <address1> netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast <broadcast address>
> inet <address2> netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast <broadcast address>
> inet <address3> netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast <broadcast address>
> media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
> status: active
I usually set up aliases with a /32 netmask, which seems to be a hint to the
kernel that outgoing packets shouldn't use that IP. I then put the correct
netmask on the "primary" ip.
--
Dan Nelson
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