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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with ifconfig alias
Date: 10 Aug 1995 09:26:04 +0200
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Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote:
>] : >>ifconfig ed1 193.119.96.55 netmask 0xffffffff alias
>Is there a good reason that the 0xffffffff netmask should not
>*ALWAYS* be implied by the use of the "alias" keyword?
It should be made the default netmask for `alias', thus it's still
overridable for those who need it.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
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