From owner-cvs-all Sun Feb 27 6:10: 4 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-106.max4-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.9.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7B8837B57E; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 06:09:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@shift.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA62245; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 14:00:29 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA03476; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 14:00:26 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200002271400.OAA03476@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Robert Watson Cc: Brian Somers , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.8 ifconfig.c In-Reply-To: Message from Robert Watson of "Sat, 26 Feb 2000 23:29:39 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 14:00:26 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Brian Somers wrote: > > > > rwatson 2000/02/26 10:55:41 PST > > > > > > Modified files: > > > sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.8 ifconfig.c > > > Log: > > > Introduce ``add'' and ``remove'' as alternatives to ``alias'' and ``delete''. > > > Improve compatibility with BSD/OS, and also more accurately reflect that > > > IP aliases aren't really any different than the primary IP address on an > > > interface. > > > > Except that the primary interface address will be used for outgoing > > Actually, that's not correct. There's a best-match search going on here [.....] Right, but it's still being done on a first-match basis, making address assignment ordering important. I was just saying that they're ``a bit different'' :-) -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message