Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:43:56 -0600 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.ORG> To: John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Desired behaviour of "ifconfig -alias" Message-ID: <20070212194356.GA54076@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <20070212190659.GA26527@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> References: <20070212163652.GA51709@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <200702121739.l1CHdZPO062101@lurza.secnetix.de> <20070212175940.GA52751@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <20070212190659.GA26527@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:06:59PM +0200, John Hay wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:59:40AM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 06:39:35PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > Brooks Davis wrote: > > > > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > > > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > > > > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > > > > FWIW, I still use alias/-alias. Mainly because that's what has > > > > > > existed historically, and the term "alias" is what is used in > > > > > > reference to rc.conf ifconfig_iface_aliasX entries. > > > > > > > > > > Maybe it would make sense to remove "alias" from the rc.conf > > > > > entries and simply number them. > > > > > > > > ipv4_addrs_<interface> is a much better replacement IMO. It's easy to > > > > use and doesn't required the hackish pseudo array traversal used by > > > > ifconfig_iface_aliasX. > > > > > > That might work for simple cases, but how do you specify > > > other parameters beside the IPs if you need to? > > > > What do you need to set? It's sets IP and netmask. It doesn't handle > > broadcast, but I'd be pretty suprised if that's needed often. What else > > is needed? Axing ifconfig_iface_aliasX is not needed, but reducing the > > visiability of the interface in the documentation is probably in order > > particularly since it's quite fragile since you have to renumber whenever > > you remove an entry. > > Some stuff cannot be done on a single line, so I have abused the _aliasX > mechanism for that. With the bridge interface: > > ifconfig_bridge0="ether 00:00:24:c0:0e:40 addm sis0 stp sis0 addm sis1 stp sis1 up" > ifconfig_bridge0_alias0="inet 146.64.84.1/24" ipv4_addrs_bridge0="146.64.84.1/24" :) > Also with the atheros driver I had problems in the past with some parameters > that did not like to be on a single commandline. I do agree there's some need for a way to pass multiple sets of parameters to ifconfig since this has commonly been a problem. Something actually designed for that might be nice. :) -- Brooks [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFF0MN8XY6L6fI4GtQRArfBAJ9sESvAsHXSzvSM1Ao72PBN1VRpZgCfcBpw feXf3tGtrD/jJtZKCjiPpPM= =vaEQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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