Removing aliases removes primary IP

[Pietro Cerutti]

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Pietro Cerutti wrote:

| 2) you remove an alias which the 'delete' argument. Since you don't
| specify which alias to be removed, the lowest IP number is removed. In
| your case, the lowest IP number happens to be your primary :-)

Maybe someone with a doc@ commit bit could commit the following patch,
since this behavior is not documented in ifconfig(8).

- --- ifconfig.8.orig     2008-03-20 15:34:17.000000000 +0100
+++ ifconfig.8  2008-03-20 15:34:43.000000000 +0100
@@ -205,7 +205,8 @@
~ .Li 0xffffffff
~ is most appropriate.
~ .It Fl alias
- -Remove the network address specified.
+Remove the network address specified, or the one with the lowest
+value if none is specified.
~ This would be used if you incorrectly specified an alias, or it
~ was no longer needed.
~ If you have incorrectly set an NS address having the side effect

- --
Pietro Cerutti
gahr at FreeBSD.org

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