ifconfig_IF_aliasX regression

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Thu Oct 1 07:15:22 UTC 2009


Quoting Alex Dupre <ale at FreeBSD.org> (from Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:11:37 +0200):

> Alexander Leidinger ha scritto:
>> I know the setup should have been the second one from the beginning (at
>> least the manpage gives something like this as an example), but the
>> first one worked without problems. The problem is either that it
>> (silently?) fails, or that it is not documented in UPDATING. Anyone with
>> their hands there recently with an opinion about it?
>
> The change is recent, to unificate ipv4 and ipv6 rc code. We have
> ipv4_addrs_IF that uses the former syntax, but why not ipv6_addrs_IF, too?

Is this a question to me?

I already expected that this is some regression because of the IPv6  
changes, but still: intended or not? If yes -> missing UPDATING entry.

Bye,
Alexander.

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