network.subr _aliasN handling

[Jason Hellenthal]

-- 
 Jason Hellenthal
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> On Jan 3, 2014, at 12:27, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd at over-yonder.net> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 11:13:25AM -0600 I heard the voice of
> Mark Felder, and lo! it spake thus:
>> 
>> Commit this and I'll buy you a beverage of your choice the next time
>> I run into you :-) I have webservers with a hundred or more aliases,
>> each followed by a comment like:
>> 
>> ifconfig_em0_aliasXX="1.2.3.4/32" # customer or vhost name
> 
> That may suggest even moving it away from numbers, so you could rack
> up
> 

Yeah or anything . . . 
ifconfig_int0_alias[array]=

Maybe a little bit overkill but in instances would be awesome for usage.

> ifconfig_em0_alias_annoyingcustomer="1.2.3.4/32"
> 
> and the like instead.  Would even open up future possibilities through
> rc for running a single one of the aliases, which would be handy as a
> double-check when you add a new one to a running system.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd at over-yonder.net
> Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
>           On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
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