docs/162354: Improve wording in rc.conf(5) regarding network-interfaces.
moritz at wzff.de
moritz at wzff.de
Mon Nov 7 19:00:23 UTC 2011
>Number: 162354
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Improve wording in rc.conf(5) regarding network-interfaces.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
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>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Nov 07 19:00:22 UTC 2011
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>Originator: Moritz Wilhelmy
>Release: FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 amd64
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>Description:
According to rc.conf(5), ifconfig_<interface>_alias<n> is deprecated,
because it fails if <n> is not continuously increasing (i.e. if a number is
missing, the rc-scripts abort the search for bigger values of <n>.)
It isn't specified what should be used instead; I guessed
ipv4_addrs_<interface>, but Marco Steinbach brought
/etc/start_if.<interface> to my attention, which is mentioned in the same
paragraph. This is confusing. Could someone please clarify which one of
these is supposed to be used in place of the deprecated
ifconfig_<interface>_alias<n>, especially since ipv4_addrs_<interface> seems
not to have an equivalent ipv6_* variable?
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