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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: network.subr _aliasN handling
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On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 11:13:25AM -0600 I heard the voice of
Mark Felder, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> Commit this and I'll buy you a beverage of your choice the next time
> I run into you :-) I have webservers with a hundred or more aliases,
> each followed by a comment like:
> 
> ifconfig_em0_aliasXX="1.2.3.4/32" # customer or vhost name

That may suggest even moving it away from numbers, so you could rack
up

ifconfig_em0_alias_annoyingcustomer="1.2.3.4/32"

and the like instead.  Would even open up future possibilities through
rc for running a single one of the aliases, which would be handy as a
double-check when you add a new one to a running system.


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Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
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