On Wednesday, November 28, 2001, at 11:52 , Crist J. Clark wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 10:24:28PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> FWIW, the FreeBSD FAQ (10.9) sez this (it's a one-liner that shows the
>> netmask 0xffffffff).
>
> I'll send in a doc PR for this. The ifconfig(8) page gets it right.
>
> alias Establish an additional network address for this
> interface. This
> is sometimes useful when changing network numbers, and one
> wishes
> to accept packets addressed to the old interface. If the
> address
> is on the same subnet as the first network address for this
> interface, a netmask of 0xffffffff has to be specified.
From the nitpick front: shouldn't that be "...on the same subnet as an
existing network address..."?
Regards,
Justin
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