Re: Strange behaviour of ``ifconfig -alias''

2006-01-27 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Alexander Hall wrote: Hi! I just noticed (the hard way) a strange behaviour of ifconfig. In short, if I supply a netmask when removing an alias with ``-alias address'', it is not, as one would expect, ignored, but rather used as the netmask for the primary address of

Re: Strange behaviour of ``ifconfig -alias''

2006-01-27 Thread Marco Pfatschbacher
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 02:18:10PM +0100, Alexander Hall wrote: Hi! I just noticed (the hard way) a strange behaviour of ifconfig. In short, if I supply a netmask when removing an alias with ``-alias address'', it is not, as one would expect, ignored, but rather used as the netmask for

Re: Strange behaviour of ``ifconfig -alias''

2006-01-27 Thread Alexander Hall
Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Alexander Hall wrote: I just noticed (the hard way) a strange behaviour of ifconfig. In short, if I supply a netmask when removing an alias with ``-alias address'', it is not, as one would expect, ignored, but rather used as the netmask for the

Re: Strange behaviour of ``ifconfig -alias''

2006-01-27 Thread Alexander Hall
Marco Pfatschbacher wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 02:18:10PM +0100, Alexander Hall wrote: Hi! I just noticed (the hard way) a strange behaviour of ifconfig. In short, if I supply a netmask when removing an alias with ``-alias address'', it is not, as one would expect, ignored, but rather