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Re: Alias interface question.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Graham Mitchell)
Wed May 1 03:39:07 1996

From: "Graham Mitchell" <gmitch@woodlea.wintermute.co.uk>
To: "Mike McLagan" <mmclagan@invlogic.com>, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: 	Tue, 30 Apr 1996 19:59:38 +0000
Reply-to: gmitch@woodlea.wintermute.co.uk

On 29 Apr 96 at 22:39, Mike McLagan wrote:

> I can ping eth0 and dummy, no problem.  100% packet return.  I can (from the
> machine in question) telnet to either of those IPs.  What I can't do is telnet
> or ping any of the aliases!!
> 
> ping 198.182.196.33 == 100% packet loss
> ping 206.223.93.2   == 100% packet loss
> 
> 
>    If I go to another machine ANY other machine, I can perform the above 
> functions.
> 
>    Kernel is 1.3.84.
> 
>    Is something missing/broken in the alias code?

Have you get up routes on the local machine to point to these new IP 
addresses?

Graham

Ask not what you can do for your country,
but what your government is doing to you


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