From owner-freebsd-hackers  Thu May 14 05:19:31 1998
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA17045
          for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 14 May 1998 05:19:31 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from cheops.anu.edu.au (daemon@cheops.anu.edu.au [150.203.76.24])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA17008
          for <hackers@freebsd.org>; Thu, 14 May 1998 05:19:26 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au)
Message-Id: <199805141219.FAA17008@hub.freebsd.org>
Received: by cheops.anu.edu.au
	(1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA025337690; Thu, 14 May 1998 22:08:10 +1000
From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: why /var/log/ppp.log
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 22:08:10 +1000 (EST)
Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <4462.895145748@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at May 14, 98 04:35:48 am
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23]
Content-Type: text
Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

In some mail from Jordan K. Hubbard, sie said:
> 
> > 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?

Oh, I thought this was about ifconfig :)

Given that the term "masquerading" is used throughout the man page, maybe
call it "--masquerade-as" (or -m for short) ?

Other than that, I'm not really concerned - just another modern product
with misleading functionality claims.


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message