Re: multi-homing in freebsd

From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer_at_freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:00:54 -0400 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:40:35 UTC

On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 01:29:27PM +0100, Daniel Nebdal wrote:
> Going by Zaphod's recommendation of using a /32 for each IP, how about this?
> 
> ifconfig arge0 inet 192.168.1.100/32
> ifconfig arge0 alias 192.169.1.100/32
> 
> I wouldn't recommend 192.169, though - only 192.168.x.x is reserved
> for private networks, and 192.169 is a valid IP-routable prefix,
> assigned to some US company.
> To be exact: The ranges from RFC1918 are 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0 /20
> and 192.168.0.0/24.

I think you mean the RFC1918 ranges are

10.0.0.0/8 (aka 10.0.0.0 through 10.255.255.255)
172.16.0.0/12 (aka 172.16.0.0 through 172.31.255.255)
192.168.0.0/16 (aka 192.168.0.0 through 192.168.255.255)

Regards,

Gary