I'm testing out some DHCP servers on a 3000/500 running DU4.0B. This
machine is connected to a segment with several overlayed subnets on it.
Though it's not necessary, I do have static routes defined that identify
those subnet to the machine. For this example, the machine has address
10.1.1.10 and one of the subnets is 10.1.2.x. Several of the DHCP servers
seem unable to vend an address on the 2 subnet. They grab it okay but then
spit out a message like 'can't locate 10.1.2 network'. Addresses that are
coming across a router are no problem because the router sticks the return
path in the packet. Obviously the static route isn't doing anything useful
for the overlayed addresses.
I thought I could fix it by giving the machine an address on the 2 subnet
and using ifconfig alias to assign it. When I did that, however, the
machine seemed to lose all connectivity through its 10.1.1 address. Am I
missing something silly here?
The command I used was: ifconfig ln0 alias 10.1.2.10 netmask 255.255.255.0
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Rick Beebe (203) 785-4566
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ITS-Med Technology Operations Richard.Beebe_at_yale.edu
Yale University School of Medicine
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Received on Thu Apr 16 1998 - 15:03:30 NZST