Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 04:35:48 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> Cc: brian@Awfulhak.org (Brian Somers), mattc@rfcnet.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, cmott@srv.net Subject: Re: why /var/log/ppp.log Message-ID: <4462.895145748@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 May 1998 21:14:47 %2B1000." <199805141116.EAA04353@time.cdrom.com>
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> In some mail from Brian Somers, sie said: > > > > > > When I originally picked up ppp, it used this name.... when it was > > > > syslogd()ified, it kept the name. There's no good reason (except > > > > that it's now what everyone knows). > > > > > > Hey, speaking of names, how about renaming (over time) the rather > > > ill-named -alias flag to -nat? :-) > > > > Probably not a bad idea. libalias would have to change to libnat too > > though (for consistency).... Any views Charles (cc'd) ? > > It's misleading and inaccurate to refer to the "-alias" flag as the > "-nat" flag. -alias doesn't win many points for being accurate or even particularly unambiguous either. ifconfig, a close neighbor to ppp, also sports an alias flag which people come frequently into contact with when doing virtual web hosting. Your better suggestion please? - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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