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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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