From 3e0c8d78f3c6fe66df272c59af327fc219e3dd2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 14:53:13 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add comment about aliases on same subnet. Submitted by: Martin Blapp --- sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 b/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 index cbe9d5107a47..a2b399a7302d 100644 --- a/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 +++ b/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 @@ -133,6 +133,8 @@ The following parameters may be set with Establish an additional network address for this interface. This is sometimes useful when changing network numbers, and one wishes to accept packets addressed to the old interface. +If the alias is on the same subnet as the first network adress +for this interface, a netmask of 0xffffffff has to be specified. .It Cm arp Enable the use of the Address Resolution Protocol in mapping between network level addresses and link level addresses (default).