From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 28 19:35:09 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id TAA06881 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 19:35:09 -0700 Received: from wraith.internode.com.au (wraith.internode.com.au [192.83.231.1]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id TAA06875 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 19:35:02 -0700 Received: by wraith.internode.com.au (5.83--+1.3.1+0.50/UA-5.23) id AA14195; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 12:01:50 +0930 From: Adrian Corston Message-Id: <9508290231.AA14195@wraith.internode.com.au> Subject: Re: alias ( secondary IP ) for Ethernet Ifaces in FreeBSD To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 95 12:01:48 CST Cc: dennis@et.htp.com, adrian@internode.com.au, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <11829.809626951@time.cdrom.com>; from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 28, 95 09:22:31 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL17] Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard types: >I am seriously confused. Did the rest of us here all come in >somewhere in the middle of a long conversation, or what? Needless to >say, I'm totally unable to make heads-or-tails of the attribution >nesting in the snippet of included text (it went 5 levels deep in the >middle!). > >What's the summary here? Is someone upset about a gated bug, a >FreeBSD bug or a little of both? Background details please! Thanks! Summary: 1. There's a miscompatibility between aliases on interfaces and gated, at least under FreeBSD. Popular opinion blames gated. 2. I submitted a FreeBSD PR about it, but received no useful replies until someone referred someone to me about it and I mentioned that I had received no useful replies, at which point in time someone told me that it was a gated bug, not a FreeBSD one. That's about it, there's nothing too sinister here. I think you've probably missed bits of the conversation because someone included a misspelled email address (hackers@feeebsd.org) along the way. -- Adrian Corston Network Consulting & Technical Support adrian@internode.com.au Internode Systems, Adelaide, South Australia Hobbies: Chorister (B2). Unrepentant ABBA Fan. DEC & Unix hardware collector.