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To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
cc: brian@Awfulhak.org (Brian Somers), mattc@rfcnet.com,
        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, cmott@srv.net
Subject: Re: why /var/log/ppp.log 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 May 1998 21:14:47 +1000."
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Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 04:35:48 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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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.

-alias doesn't win many points for being accurate or even particularly
 unambiguous either.  ifconfig, a close neighbor to ppp, also sports
 an alias flag which people come frequently into contact with when
 doing virtual web hosting.  Your better suggestion please?

- Jordan

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