Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 00:16:20 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'ifconfig fxp0 -alias' wipes out all IPs on device Message-ID: <p06110400bdb35f96f951@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20041107010017.R46679@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20041107010017.R46679@ganymede.hub.org>
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At 1:02 AM -0400 11/7/04, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >I hate to report an email, but after being laughed at by both >Linux and Windows users, I'm kinda concerned at the lack of >response to my originals ... is this truly the desired behaviour? >And, if so ... can someone put some sort of warning/notice about >it in the man page(s)? I imagine you received no response simply because several of the main developers have been swamped trying to finish off 5.3. I remember seeing your earlier report, but I don't remember which mailing list it was sent to. I'll respond enough to say that the behavior you saw seems undesirable to me. But I'm not a networking guy, so that doesn't mean much... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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