atom feed57 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-stableDesired behaviour of "ifconfig -alias"
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Subject:Desired behaviour of "ifconfig -alias"
From:Oliver Fromme (ol@lurza.secnetix.de)
Date:Feb 12, 2007 4:22:12 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-stable

Jeremy Chadwick wrote:

Oliver Fromme wrote: [...]

The "-alias" parameter simply removes an address from an interface. The term "alias" should really be avoided because it is misleading. You can use "delete" or "remove" which do the same thing. I think "-alias" should really be regarded to exist for backwards compatibility only. Personally I always use "delete".

If no IP address is specified, then it's not completely nonsensical to remove the first address. In fact I've used that short-cut to quickly remove the only address from an interface. I've used "ifconfig xyz0 delete" quite a lot.

Great. Okay, so now we have someone who does in fact rely on this behaviour, except with "delete" not -alias.

I just got used to it because it's a convenient shortcut, because you neither have to type nor to copy&paste the IP.

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.

Thus, it may be worthwhile to fix this only for the -alias option, but leave "delete" and "remove" how they are.

I would be happy with that. :)

Best regards Oliver

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