Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 19:41:12 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "David A. Koran" <dak@solo.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ifconfig aliases Message-ID: <20020227194112.E66092@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <p05100300b8a2f3ad4026@[192.168.200.104]>; from dak@solo.net on Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 03:51:04PM -0500 References: <p05100300b8a2f3ad4026@[192.168.200.104]>
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On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 03:51:04PM -0500, David A. Koran wrote:
> Did somebody make a change to the syntax of how the ifconfig aliases
> (eg. "ifconfig_fxp0_alias1="inet some.ip.addr.ess netmask
> some.net.mask.num") work? According to the old listings (and many
> FreeBSD docs of the past) the netmask of the aliases in the past used
> to be whatever your base netmask was. For example, this used to be
> legal:
>
> ifconfig_fxp0="inet AAA.BBB.CCC.190 netmask 255.255.255.128"
> ifconfig_fxp0_alias0="inet AAA. BBB.DDD.209 netmask 255.255.255.248"
> ifconfig_fxp0_alias1="inet AAA. BBB.DDD.210 netmask 255.255.255.248"
> ifconfig_fxp0_alias2="inet AAA. BBB.DDD.211 netmask 255.255.255.248"
> ifconfig_fxp0_alias3="inet AAA. BBB.DDD.212 netmask 255.255.255.248"
> ifconfig_fxp0_alias4="inet AAA. BBB.DDD.213 netmask 255.255.255.248"
> ifconfig_fxp0_alias5="inet AAA. BBB.DDD.214 netmask 255.255.255.248"
This was never "legal." It has always been a
misconfiguration. However, depending on what you were doing, it may
still have worked in spite of not making any sense.
[snip]
> I apologize if this seems confusing, but I'm trying to track down
> what exactly made the syntax change for aliases in this fashion.
I'm kind of curious, but it could be a lot of things. But then again,
it doesn't really matter, nothing is broken.
--
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| cjclark@jhu.edu
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