Subject: Re: "rotating" IPv4 addresses - bug or feature?
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/11/2007 11:12:12
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Jukka Salmi wrote:
  [several ifconfig commands, then:]
> $ ifconfig vr0 inet 192.168.0.1/24
> $ ifconfig vr0
> vr0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> 	address: 00:0c:6e:74:f6:81
> 	media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
> 	status: active
> 	inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
> 	inet alias 192.168.0.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
> 	inet alias 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255

This looks like a bug to me.  "ifconfig vr0 inet 192.168.0.1/24" should
not have made 192.168.0.2 become the first address in the list; it
should have made 192.168.0.1 the first adress in the list.

--apb (Alan Barrett)