On Monday 12 February 2007 12:26, Oliver Fromme wrote:

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the question is not you or me, I guess that you are like me perfectly capable of working around messed things. But that does not make it being right or acceptable.

I said this in shorter words in my post but it is not the point at all.

man page tells us that it removes THE specified address ... not AN address

it is not misleading and it is a perfect term. With alias you add secondary addresses to an interface. Like secondary is probably the better word, as cisco does, but what we have is alias and that is ok. It could be any other word so long as it works as it should. (We do have "add" also I remember.)

also don't forget the following, alias is a perfect and usual term, then when I can add an IP address with the alias cmd then -alias should remove it.

I know that I can add the first IP also with alias but that is not the usual way.

Also do not forget that the usual way since ever is ifconfig_nic_alias0 to add one. So this thing is confusing.

the man page tells us that -alias removes *the* specified address and not the first, also the man page does not say that there is any further action when *no* IP address specified

delete is according to the man page another word for -alias, that means, using grammatical logic that -alias is the main command, then according to the man page there is no other command as "-alias *IP*" to remove an IP address and -alias only should not remove anything

you see, now you apply logic because you want to and when not not ... ;)

to let it more clear what I mean, you say: "you don't tell it anything to add" so why the heck "ifconfig nic -alias" should remove one if I do not tell so?

at least one agreement here :)

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Jo?o

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