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From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To: grog@lemis.com, rewt@i-plus.net
Subject: Re: ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists
Cc: ktsin@acm.org, questions@freebsd.org
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Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 16:59:35 PDT
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It works on non-point-to-point interfaces.  I would be perfectly willing
to believe that aliases on point-to-point interfaces are broken.

  Bill