Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 22:08:10 +1000 (EST) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why /var/log/ppp.log Message-ID: <199805141219.FAA17008@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4462.895145748@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at May 14, 98 04:35:48 am
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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
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