From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 27 19:41:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EF4937B448 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 19:41:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020228034116.IKMO2626.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org>; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 03:41:16 +0000 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1S3fCd67410; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 19:41:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 19:41:12 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "David A. Koran" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ifconfig aliases Message-ID: <20020227194112.E66092@blossom.cjclark.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from dak@solo.net on Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 03:51:04PM -0500 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 03:51:04PM -0500, David A. Koran wrote: > Did somebody make a change to the syntax of how the ifconfig aliases > (eg. "ifconfig_fxp0_alias1="inet some.ip.addr.ess netmask > some.net.mask.num") work? According to the old listings (and many > FreeBSD docs of the past) the netmask of the aliases in the past used > to be whatever your base netmask was. For example, this used to be > legal: > > ifconfig_fxp0="inet AAA.BBB.CCC.190 netmask 255.255.255.128" > ifconfig_fxp0_alias0="inet AAA. BBB.DDD.209 netmask 255.255.255.248" > ifconfig_fxp0_alias1="inet AAA. BBB.DDD.210 netmask 255.255.255.248" > ifconfig_fxp0_alias2="inet AAA. BBB.DDD.211 netmask 255.255.255.248" > ifconfig_fxp0_alias3="inet AAA. BBB.DDD.212 netmask 255.255.255.248" > ifconfig_fxp0_alias4="inet AAA. BBB.DDD.213 netmask 255.255.255.248" > ifconfig_fxp0_alias5="inet AAA. BBB.DDD.214 netmask 255.255.255.248" This was never "legal." It has always been a misconfiguration. However, depending on what you were doing, it may still have worked in spite of not making any sense. [snip] > I apologize if this seems confusing, but I'm trying to track down > what exactly made the syntax change for aliases in this fashion. I'm kind of curious, but it could be a lot of things. But then again, it doesn't really matter, nothing is broken. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message