Bug in syslogd parsing of IP aliases?

[naser]

When there are IP aliases added to network interface, syslogd doesn't seem to parse things correctly.

For example:

#ifconfig re0 alias 172.24.0.225 netmask 255.255.255.0
# ifconfig
...
inet 172.24.0.224 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.24.0.255
inet 172.24.0.225 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.24.0.255

Results in syslogd starting with the following parameters:

#ps -auxww |grep syslogd
root 3359 0.0 0.1 14548 2156 - Is 9:35AM 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/syslogd -8 -a 172.24.0.224 -a 172.24.0.225/32 -a 24 -f /var/etc/syslog.conf

Which instead should be -a 172.24.0.224/24 -a 172.24.0.225/32 or better yet -a 172.24.0.224/24 -a 172.24.0.225/24 ?

[zoon01]

This is something that needs to be changed on freebsd and or syslogd
It's not an specific n4f bug.