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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 20:38:23 +0100
From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
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Subject: ifconfig alias is broken
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>Number:         259
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       ifconfig alias x.y.z.b behaves bad
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs (FreeBSD bugs mailing list)
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Mar 20 12:10:01 1995
>Closed-Date:    Mon Mar 20 22:12:52 MET 1995
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Guido van Rooij
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.0-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
Guido van Rooij                 |  Internet: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl
Bisschopsmolen 16               |  Phone:    ++31.40.461433
5612 DS Eindhoven               |  ((12+144+20)+3*sqrt(4))/7 
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>Environment:

	

>Description:

	

When you run
	ifconfig inet x.y.z.a netmask 0xffffff00 alias x.y.z.b
the kernel picks up x.y,.z.b as a broadcast adres. Whenever you
also specify the broacast adres, it work as expected.

>How-To-Repeat:

	

>Fix:
This is no bug. alias is just a flag for the complete command line. Not an option that comes with an adress	.
	

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: guido 
State-Changed-When: Mon Mar 20 22:12:52 MET 1995 
State-Changed-Why:  
This was a non-bug 
>Unformatted:



