Desired behaviour of "ifconfig -alias"

[Oliver Fromme]

Brooks Davis wrote:
 > Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > > Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
 > > > Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > > > FWIW, I still use alias/-alias.  Mainly because that's what has
 > > > existed historically, and the term "alias" is what is used in
 > > > reference to rc.conf ifconfig_iface_aliasX entries.
 > > 
 > > Maybe it would make sense to remove "alias" from the rc.conf
 > > entries and simply number them.
 > 
 > ipv4_addrs_<interface> is a much better replacement IMO.  It's easy to
 > use and doesn't required the hackish pseudo array traversal used by
 > ifconfig_iface_aliasX.

That might work for simple cases, but how do you specify
other parameters beside the IPs if you need to?

I agree that the array traversal is somewhat hackish, but
at least it works and provides a way to set all ifconfig
parameters that you need.

Best regards
   Oliver

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