From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 14 19:29:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA11452 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 14 May 1998 19:29:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from srv.net (snake.srv.net [199.104.81.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA11431 for ; Thu, 14 May 1998 19:29:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cmott@srv.net) Received: from darkstar.home (cmott.srv.net [199.104.81.25]) by srv.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA01257; Thu, 14 May 1998 20:27:39 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 19:27:06 -0700 (MST) From: Charles Mott X-Sender: cmott@darkstar.home To: Terry Lambert cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, brian@Awfulhak.org, mattc@rfcnet.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why /var/log/ppp.log In-Reply-To: <199805150204.TAA16311@usr01.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 15 May 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: > Or if it supports transparent proxy, then "libproxy"? I like the term "packet aliasing", since that is what the library does in its most general sense. The ifconfig type of alias is really "interface address aliasing". Possibly libalias could be changed to "libpktalias" or "libpacketalias". The library really only operates on packets. It has to be integrated with other programs which feed it packets to rewrite. Changing the library name is easy. Switching from ppp -alias to ppp -pktalias or something else will cause alot of problems for the average user. > > > Personally, I think the ifconfig alias option is equally confusing and > > should be called a secondary or virtual ip address. I think "secondary" > > would actually be the most appropriate term rather than "alias" for > > ifconfig. > > I agree here, though a "secondary" option implies a third would require > "tertiary". 8-|. I guess the idea is that there can be only one "primary" address but many "secondary" addresses. The word is being used more like a priority than an enumeration. Charles Mott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message