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Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 23:21:10 +0100
From: Moritz Wilhelmy <moritz@wzff.de>
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Subject: Re: "Deprecated" ifconfig_<interface>_alias<n>
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On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 22:46:24 +0100, Moritz Wilhelmy wrote:
> according to the rc.conf(5) manual page, the
> ifconfig_<interface>_alias_<n> mechanism has been deprecated:
> 
> 	
> 	And so on.  For each ifconfig_<interface>_alias<n> entry that
> 	is found, its contents are passed to ifconfig(8).
> 	Execution stops at the first unsuccessful access, so if
> 	something like this is present:
> 
> 	ifconfig_ed0_alias0="inet 127.0.0.251 netmask 0xffffffff"
> 	ifconfig_ed0_alias1="inet 127.0.0.252 netmask 0xffffffff"
> 	ifconfig_ed0_alias2="inet 127.0.0.253 netmask 0xffffffff"
> 	ifconfig_ed0_alias4="inet 127.0.0.254 netmask 0xffffffff"
> 
> 	Then note that alias4 would not be added since the search
> 	would stop with the missing `alias3'' entry.  Due to this
> 	difficult to manage behavior, the
> 	ifconfig_<interface>_alias<n> form is deprecated.
> 
> 
> I can't see any further hints by what it has been deprecated, and the
> net is full of examples using this mechanism. Can someone point me to
> whereever some equivalent functionality has been implemented? Should I
> file a PR, or am I just being blind? (Machine is running 9.1-RC1, maybe
> it has been deprecated after 8)

Silly me, I guess that would be ipv4_addrs_<interface>? It would still
be nice to mention that ipv4_addrs_<interface> should be used in place
of ifconfig_<interface>_alias<n>, and that they are both entirely
equivalent, I guess.


Best,

Moritz