On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:59:40AM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 06:39:35PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Brooks Davis wrote: > > > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > > > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > > > FWIW, I still use alias/-alias. Mainly because that's what has > > > > > existed historically, and the term "alias" is what is used in > > > > > reference to rc.conf ifconfig_iface_aliasX entries. > > > > > > > > Maybe it would make sense to remove "alias" from the rc.conf > > > > entries and simply number them. > > > > > > ipv4_addrs_<interface> is a much better replacement IMO. It's easy to > > > use and doesn't required the hackish pseudo array traversal used by > > > ifconfig_iface_aliasX. > > > > That might work for simple cases, but how do you specify > > other parameters beside the IPs if you need to? > > What do you need to set? It's sets IP and netmask. It doesn't handle > broadcast, but I'd be pretty suprised if that's needed often. What else > is needed? Axing ifconfig_iface_aliasX is not needed, but reducing the > visiability of the interface in the documentation is probably in order > particularly since it's quite fragile since you have to renumber whenever > you remove an entry.
Some stuff cannot be done on a single line, so I have abused the _aliasX mechanism for that. With the bridge interface: ifconfig_bridge0="ether 00:00:24:c0:0e:40 addm sis0 stp sis0 addm sis1 stp sis1 up" ifconfig_bridge0_alias0="inet 146.64.84.1/24" Also with the atheros driver I had problems in the past with some parameters that did not like to be on a single commandline. FWIW I do not find the "ifconfig iface -alias" to be a problem... probably because I'm used to it. :-) What I do find silly is that you cannot do "ifconfig iface tunnel inet6 <inet6_addr> <inet6_addr>" anymore. It used to work and is still documented in ifconfig(8) to work. You have to swap inet6 and tunnel for it to work. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
