[2758] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Alias interface question, round 2.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Wed May 1 18:58:47 1996
To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: miquels@drinkel.ow.org (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 10:29:48 +0200 (MET DST)
In article <199604301616.MAA03475@invlogic.com>,
Mike McLagan <mmclagan@invlogic.com> wrote:
>You (Mike McLagan) wrote
>> 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?
>
>A number of you have written me and asked if I added the routes. I had not
>done so, so I went ahead and added in all 276 routes. Seems somewhat ludicris
>(sp?) to me that I'd have to add a route to an IP Alias but I don't have to
>have a route to a real interface.
>
>And, having just done this:
>
> route add -host 198.182.196.33
>
>I tried
>
> ping 198.182.196.33
>
> 100 % packet loss.
Try "route add -host 198.182.196.33 dev eth0:30"
^^ alias number
Mike.
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