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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: why /var/log/ppp.log
To: brian@Awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 21:14:47 +1000 (EST)
Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, brian@Awfulhak.org, mattc@rfcnet.com,
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In-Reply-To: <199805140659.HAA22156@awfulhak.org> from "Brian Somers" at May 14, 98 07:59:07 am
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In some mail from Brian Somers, sie said:
> 
> > > When I originally picked up ppp, it used this name.... when it was 
> > > syslogd()ified, it kept the name.  There's no good reason (except 
> > > that it's now what everyone knows).
> > 
> > Hey, speaking of names, how about renaming (over time) the rather
> > ill-named -alias flag to -nat? :-)
> 
> Probably not a bad idea.  libalias would have to change to libnat too 
> though (for consistency)....  Any views Charles (cc'd) ?

It's misleading and inaccurate to refer to the "-alias" flag as the
"-nat" flag.

Darren

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