On 3/06/2012 5:11 AM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > > On 2. Jun 2012, at 15:53 , Darren Reed wrote: > >> Is there any reason that this patch hasn't been applied >> to -current? I've just run into this and I can't believe >> that it still exists, given that it falls into the "low >> hanging fruit" category. I'll note that if it wasn't for >> subversion, I'd be doing a commit rather than an email. > > ifconfig [-L] [-k] [-m] [-n] interface [create] address_family [address > [dest_address]] [parameters] > ... > > > The following parameters may be set with ifconfig: > ... > -alias Remove the network address specified. This would be used if you > incorrectly specified an alias, or it was no longer needed. If > you have incorrectly set an NS address having the side effect of > specifying the host portion, removing all NS addresses will allow > you to respecify the host portion. > ... > delete Another name for the -alias parameter. > > > Parameters go last as clearly stated in the beginning of the man page and > that works well: > > root@lion3:/home/test # ifconfig lo0 inet6 2001:db8:ffff::ffff/128 alias > root@lion3:/home/test # ifconfig lo0 inet6 2001:db8:ffff::ffff/128 delete > root@lion3:/home/test # > > > The fact that for inet you could give it in the beginning and other minor > things leniently allowed have caused a lot of trouble the last years.
This also works: ifconfig lo0 inet6 alias 2001:db8:ffff::ffff/128 ... so it seems strange for delete to not also work like that. Anyway, if the current behaviour isn't a bug and that PR won't be fixed (or the patch won't be applied) then someone should close it out. Darren _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
