Hi,

as a follow-up to my tale about upgrading to 1.3alpha:

This snippet passed by on port-i386 -- three days too late for me. Colin,
this is definitely a piece for your collection...

	hauke




>the format of /etc/hostname.xx0 is different than the format 
>of /etc/ifconfig.xx0.   
>
>hostname.xx0 looks like:
>
>inet myname 255.255.255.0 128.252.153.255 
>
>becomes this in ifconfig.xx0:
>
>inet myname netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 128.252.153.255
>            ^^^^^^^               ^^^^^^^^^
>
>it is very easy to get used to the old format and not realize
>that the new format is different.   this caused one of wustl's
>"de" interfaces to be 'down' after boot.


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