>Number:         14930
>Category:       admin
>Synopsis:       ifconfig.if documentation slightly unprecise
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    netbsd-admin
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Dec 12 14:35:01 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jørgen Nørgaard
>Release:        netBSD 1.5.2
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD www.napolinet.dk 1.5.2 NetBSD 1.5.2 (GENERIC) #3: Sat Aug 18 23:37:05 CEST 2001     he@hamster.urc.uninett.no:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
>Description:
man ifconfig.if describes an alias as:

"inet 10.0.1.13 255.255.255.255 alias"

but in order to get it working it had to be like:

"inet 10.0.1.13 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias"

There seems to be some implications for routing of using 255.255.255.255 as compared to 255.255.255.0 for the netmask. Could be here and/or in the ifconfig man.


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