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From: Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net>
Subject: Re: docs/32373: Bad ifconfig(8) alias advice in FAQ 10.9
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The following reply was made to PR docs/32373; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net>
To: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@earthlink.net>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/32373: Bad ifconfig(8) alias advice in FAQ 10.9
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:25:15 +0000

 How about this patch ?
 
 Ceri
 
 --- doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml.old Thu Nov 29 13:18:34 2001
 +++ doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml     Thu Nov 29 13:23:36 2001
 @@ -8802,10 +8802,15 @@
            <para>How can I setup Ethernet aliases?</para>
          </question><answer>
 
 -          <para>Add <literal>netmask 0xffffffff</literal> to your
 -            &man.ifconfig.8; command-line like the following:</para>
 +          <para>If the alias is on the same subnet as the first address, then add
 +          <literal>netmask 0xffffffff</literal> to your &man.ifconfig.8; command-line
 +          like the following:</para>
 
 -          <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>ifconfig ed0 alias 204.141.95.2 netmask 0xffffffff</userinput></screen>
 +          <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>ifconfig ed0 alias 10.20.30.40 netmask 0xffffffff</userinput></screen>
 +
 +         <para>Otherwise, just specify the network address and netmask as usual:</para>
 +
 +         <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>ifconfig ed0 alias 172.16.141.5 netmask 0xffffff00</userinput</screen>
          </answer>
        </qandaentry>
 

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