On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 13:22:35 +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote: > John Baldwin <[email protected]> wrote > in <[email protected]>: > jh> I don't think ifconfig_IF_aliasN is depreated, though you can now use > jh> ifconfig_IF_aliases as an alternate. Also, both ifconfig_IF_aliases > jh> and ifconfig_IF_aliasN handle both IPv4 and IPv6. See this commit for > more > jh> details: > jh> > jh> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=252015
Thanks. Having both IPv6 and IPv4 in the same place with the ability to just configure an entire subnet sounds like a sane decision. > The sentence "Due to this difficult to manage behavior, the > ifconfig_IF_aliasN form is deprecated." was added back in 2005, when > ipv4_addrs_IF was added. I guess it was considered that > ipv4_addrs_IF was the replacement of ifconfig_IF_aliasN. > > I refactored it in a AF-independent manner and used > ifconfig_IF_aliases as the successor, but I did not change that part > in rc.conf(5) manual page. I think we can think both > ifconfig_IF_aliasN and ifconfig_IF_aliases are currently supported. > There is no immediate plan to remove ifconfig_IF_aliasN, at least. > > Is it reasonable to remove the sentence? I think it is. Thank you! I see the changes are already in 9.2 so I'm happy for now :) Moritz _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
