57 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-stableDesired behaviour of "ifconfig -alias"| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Kevin Way | Feb 9, 2007 9:35 pm | |
| Jeremy Chadwick | Feb 9, 2007 9:48 pm | |
| Brooks Davis | Feb 9, 2007 10:54 pm | |
| JoaoBR | Feb 10, 2007 1:00 am | |
| Kevin Way | Feb 10, 2007 2:13 am | |
| Jeremy Chadwick | Feb 10, 2007 2:47 am | |
| Ian Smith | Feb 10, 2007 5:12 am | |
| JoaoBR | Feb 10, 2007 10:16 am | |
| Michael Nottebrock | Feb 10, 2007 12:15 pm | |
| Ian Smith | Feb 10, 2007 2:19 pm | |
| Bruce M. Simpson | Feb 11, 2007 1:35 am | |
| Oliver Fromme | Feb 12, 2007 2:26 pm | |
| Brooks Davis | Feb 12, 2007 2:42 pm | |
| Jeremy Chadwick | Feb 12, 2007 3:36 pm | |
| Oliver Fromme | Feb 12, 2007 4:22 pm | |
| Brooks Davis | Feb 12, 2007 4:36 pm | |
| JoaoBR | Feb 12, 2007 5:27 pm | |
| Oliver Fromme | Feb 12, 2007 5:39 pm | |
| Brooks Davis | Feb 12, 2007 5:59 pm | |
| Oliver Fromme | Feb 12, 2007 6:09 pm | |
| Oliver Fromme | Feb 12, 2007 6:23 pm | |
| Brooks Davis | Feb 12, 2007 6:40 pm | |
| Jeremy Chadwick | Feb 12, 2007 7:16 pm | |
| Brooks Davis | Feb 12, 2007 7:27 pm | |
| John Hay | Feb 12, 2007 7:32 pm | |
| Jeremy Chadwick | Feb 12, 2007 7:34 pm | |
| Brooks Davis | Feb 12, 2007 7:43 pm | |
| Freddie Cash | Feb 12, 2007 7:47 pm | |
| JoaoBR | Feb 12, 2007 7:54 pm | |
| JoaoBR | Feb 12, 2007 9:17 pm | |
| Oliver Fromme | Feb 12, 2007 10:04 pm | |
| J. T. Farmer | Feb 12, 2007 11:14 pm | |
| Kevin Way | Feb 12, 2007 11:26 pm | |
| Joerg Pernfuss | Feb 13, 2007 2:01 am | |
| Brooks Davis | Feb 13, 2007 2:23 am | |
| Sam Leffler | Feb 13, 2007 4:00 am | |
| Freddie Cash | Feb 13, 2007 6:08 am | |
| JoaoBR | Feb 13, 2007 7:43 am | |
| Oliver Fromme | Feb 13, 2007 7:57 am | |
| JoaoBR | Feb 13, 2007 8:52 am | |
| Oliver Fromme | Feb 13, 2007 10:38 am | |
| Oliver Fromme | Feb 13, 2007 10:47 am | |
| Bruce M. Simpson | Feb 13, 2007 1:17 pm | |
| Freddie Cash | Feb 13, 2007 5:14 pm | |
| Pete French | Feb 13, 2007 5:19 pm | |
| Freddie Cash | Feb 13, 2007 5:22 pm | |
| Freddie Cash | Feb 13, 2007 5:44 pm | |
| Jeremy Chadwick | Feb 13, 2007 6:08 pm | |
| Oliver Fromme | Feb 13, 2007 6:37 pm | |
| Oliver Fromme | Feb 13, 2007 6:41 pm | |
| Freddie Cash | Feb 13, 2007 6:55 pm | |
| sth...@nethelp.no | Feb 13, 2007 7:02 pm | |
| Joan Picanyol i Puig | Feb 13, 2007 7:04 pm | |
| Patrick M. Hausen | Feb 13, 2007 7:10 pm | |
| Oliver Fromme | Feb 13, 2007 8:06 pm | |
| Oliver Fromme | Feb 13, 2007 8:36 pm | |
| Jeremy Chadwick | Feb 13, 2007 9:32 pm |
| Subject: | Desired behaviour of "ifconfig -alias" | |
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| From: | Freddie Cash (fca...@ocis.net) | |
| Date: | Feb 13, 2007 5:14:59 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-stable | |
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 02:38 am, Oliver Fromme wrote:
JoaoBR <jo...@matik.com.br> wrote:
Oliver Fromme wrote:
No, not at all. As soon as you use the terms "primary IP address" and "secondary IP addresses", you imply that they are not equal. But they are equal. It's just a list of IP addresses assigned to an interface which happens to have a certain order.
nobody claims that there is an master-slave order or something, alias is the secondary in order of time, but not in value, I do not even understand why you talking so much about this, the point is more than clear
No, it doesn't seem to be clear to you.
As soon as you use the terms "primary" and "secondary", you are implying a certain order in the meaning of the IP addresses. But as far as the ifconfig(8) tool is concerned, there is no order, no matter ow you would interpret it. In theory, ifconfig could print the IP addresses for an interface in random order, and each time in a different order. Which of them would you call "primary" then? Which of them would be "aliases"?
For a set of IPs in the same subnet on the same interface, wouldn't the primary IP be the one with the proper netmask, and all IPs with netmasks of /32 be secondary? In that situation, wouldn't deleting the primary IP cause connection issues for the rest of the IPs?
For a set of IPs in separate subnets, each with their own non-/32 netmasks, there wouldn't really be a distinction between primary / secondary.
-- Freddie Cash fca...@ocis.net