ipv6_addrs_IF aliases in rc.conf(5)

Michael Grimm trashcan at odo.in-berlin.de
Fri Jul 12 06:52:46 UTC 2013


On 2013-07-12 6:56, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote
>   in 
> <CAN6yY1sRSWEMj2_bJX_DRZMxgk4tf50_ODe8O8i2d6wTrGW3ug at mail.gmail.com>:
> 
> rk> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 4:46 AM, Mark Felder <feld at feld.me> wrote:
> rk>
> rk> > On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 06:44:12 -0500, Michael Grimm <
> rk> > trashcan at odo.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> rk> >
> rk> >  Will that patch make it into 9.2? If I am not mistaken, that 
> patch isn't
> rk> >> in stable yet.
> rk> >>
> rk> >
> rk> > I would also like to see this patch hit 9.x sooner than later. 
> It's so
> rk> > painful when someone forgets to fix the alias numbering on 
> servers with
> rk> > many, many IPv4 and IPv6 addresses...
> rk> >
> rk>
> rk> Please, please, please, please, ...!
> rk>
> rk> Freeze is only two days away, so time for 9.2 is almost over and I 
> can see
> rk> no good reason NOT to get this done.
> 
>  r252015 was merged to stable/9 today.

Thanks! This is highly appreciated. A first glance at network.subr tells 
me that
much more has been modified/simplified regarding alias definitions, 
great.

Regards, Michael



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