Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 17:09:36 GMT From: moritz@wzff.de To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/162354: Improve wording in rc.conf(5) regarding network-interfaces. Message-ID: <201111071709.pA7H9afH025856@phallus.wzff.de> Resent-Message-ID: <201111071900.pA7J0MiW016911@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 162354 >Category: docs >Synopsis: Improve wording in rc.conf(5) regarding network-interfaces. >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Nov 07 19:00:22 UTC 2011 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Moritz Wilhelmy >Release: FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 amd64 >Organization: >Environment: >Description: According to rc.conf(5), ifconfig_<interface>_alias<n> is deprecated, because it fails if <n> is not continuously increasing (i.e. if a number is missing, the rc-scripts abort the search for bigger values of <n>.) It isn't specified what should be used instead; I guessed ipv4_addrs_<interface>, but Marco Steinbach brought /etc/start_if.<interface> to my attention, which is mentioned in the same paragraph. This is confusing. Could someone please clarify which one of these is supposed to be used in place of the deprecated ifconfig_<interface>_alias<n>, especially since ipv4_addrs_<interface> seems not to have an equivalent ipv6_* variable? >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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