From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 7 05:16:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2771D16A4CE for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 05:16:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEFA743D3F for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 05:16:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iA75GM17029444; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 00:16:23 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20041107010017.R46679@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20041107010017.R46679@ganymede.hub.org> Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 00:16:20 -0500 To: "Marc G. Fournier" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Subject: Re: 'ifconfig fxp0 -alias' wipes out all IPs on device X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 05:16:25 -0000 At 1:02 AM -0400 11/7/04, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >I hate to report an email, but after being laughed at by both >Linux and Windows users, I'm kinda concerned at the lack of >response to my originals ... is this truly the desired behaviour? >And, if so ... can someone put some sort of warning/notice about >it in the man page(s)? I imagine you received no response simply because several of the main developers have been swamped trying to finish off 5.3. I remember seeing your earlier report, but I don't remember which mailing list it was sent to. I'll respond enough to say that the behavior you saw seems undesirable to me. But I'm not a networking guy, so that doesn't mean much... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu