On Dec 31, 2013, at 10:14 PM, Jason Hellenthal wrote:

> 
> 
>> On Dec 31, 2013, at 23:20, Darren Pilgrim <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 12/27/2013 9:53 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>>> Looking at _alias'N' sequentialy feels like a neucense.
>> 
>> It is.  It's also very easy to overlook a gap and have the system break on a 
>> reboot.  I thought ipv4_addrs_* was a good solution.
>> 
> 
> Ipv4_addrs var while nice can get very lengthy very quick and then more prone 
> to humanized errors. If you add ipv6 in there it grows horizontally tenfold.
> 
> There just isn't an easy way around this unless we were to for say  . . . 
> /etc/ifconfig_ipv4
> /etc/ifconfig_ipv6
> 
> And then read in the lines one by one as . . . 
> $INTERFACE $ADDR $OPTS
> 
> 
> Personally I like the way Debian handles this but I really only see a need 
> for handling it the initial way I wrote about non-sequentially which puts it 
> fairly close to how they do it.

Which I bet my patch would implement it the way you want.
Any chance to get around to testing it yet?
-- 
Devin

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