Marco Pfatschbacher wrote:
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 02:18:10PM +0100, Alexander Hall wrote:
Hi!
I just noticed (the hard way) a strange behaviour of ifconfig. In short,
if I supply a netmask when removing an alias with ``-alias <address>'',
it is not, as one would expect, ignored, but rather used as the netmask
for the primary address of the interface.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=111852853930931
Thanks. A combination of being upset and that too often ocurring
sensation of "I have followed misc for so long now and I sure have not
seen this issue" made me overlook the archives.
Now I see the syntax error (ip address should be prior to [-]alias), and
although I would have expected an error message rather than some
undocumented behaviour, I suppose I'll learn to live with it since I do
not have the time or skills to fix it.
/Alexander
