From 6487a966c893ce051413fd3dc82e9a1469109d43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ru <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:23:03 +0000
Subject: The "inet" keyword in the "ifconfig_IF_aliasN" is mandatory for IPv4
 aliases to work since network.subr@197139.

MFC after:	3 days
---
 share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'share')

diff --git a/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
index e4a058a..47a325b 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd October 23, 2011
+.Dd December 13, 2011
 .Dt RC.CONF 5
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -1101,7 +1101,9 @@ ipv4_addrs_ed0="192.0.2.129/27 192.0.2.1-5/28"
 .Pp
 It is also possible to add IP alias entries using
 .Xr ifconfig 8
-syntax.
+syntax with the
+.Dq Li inet
+keyword.
 Assuming that the interface in question was
 .Li ed0 ,
 it might look
@@ -1114,7 +1116,9 @@ ifconfig_ed0_alias1="inet 127.0.0.254 netmask 0xffffffff"
 And so on.
 For each
 .Va ifconfig_ Ns Ao Ar interface Ac Ns Va _alias Ns Aq Ar n
-entry that is found,
+entry with the
+.Dq Li inet
+keyword that is found,
 its contents are passed to
 .Xr ifconfig 8 .
 Execution stops at the first unsuccessful access, so if
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