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Date:      Fri, 29 Dec 1995 10:40:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        freebsd-bugs
Subject:   bin/918: ifconfig shows (first?) alias if interface has aliases
Message-ID:  <199512291840.KAA05399@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/918; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To: hsu@clinet.fi
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: bin/918: ifconfig shows (first?) alias if interface has aliases
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 13:39:07 -0500

 <<On Fri, 29 Dec 1995 12:51:27 +0200, Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi> said:
 
 > 	There doesn't seem to be any way to correctly display
 > 	aliases, and ifconfig shows alias addresses instead of the
 > 	"main" address.
 
 There is no such distinction.  All the addresses attached to an
 interface are just that: addresses attached to an interface.  The
 first one displayed just happens to be the first one in the linked
 list of addresses hanging off the interface structure.
 
 -GAWollman
 
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