Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 22:46:24 +0100 From: Moritz Wilhelmy <moritz@wzff.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: "Deprecated" ifconfig_<interface>_alias<n> Message-ID: <20111106214624.GT16096@barfooze.de>
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Hello, according to the rc.conf(5) manual page, the ifconfig_<interface>_alias_<n> mechanism has been deprecated: And so on. For each ifconfig_<interface>_alias<n> entry that is found, its contents are passed to ifconfig(8). Execution stops at the first unsuccessful access, so if something like this is present: ifconfig_ed0_alias0="inet 127.0.0.251 netmask 0xffffffff" ifconfig_ed0_alias1="inet 127.0.0.252 netmask 0xffffffff" ifconfig_ed0_alias2="inet 127.0.0.253 netmask 0xffffffff" ifconfig_ed0_alias4="inet 127.0.0.254 netmask 0xffffffff" Then note that alias4 would not be added since the search would stop with the missing `alias3'' entry. Due to this difficult to manage behavior, the ifconfig_<interface>_alias<n> form is deprecated. I can't see any further hints by what it has been deprecated, and the net is full of examples using this mechanism. Can someone point me to whereever some equivalent functionality has been implemented? Should I file a PR, or am I just being blind? (Machine is running 9.1-RC1, maybe it has been deprecated after 8) Best regards, Moritz
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