Yesterday RayzrShrp asked if there was a way to alias the return from
ifconfig. I replied that the best way would be to hack ifconfig to read an
alias file. So today I spent some time and hacked net-tools, where
ifconfig comes from, to read an alias file in /etc.

You can get it here:

http://home.comcast.net/~aardvark2/hacked-tools.html

You will need to compile from source to get it to work.

../configure
make
su
make install
{ for those that are just joining us }

And I suggest that you also download the unhacked version and run diff on
them. This will show what I did and that I didn't put anything malicious
in the code. Remember boys and girls always CYA.

Make sure you read the README-ALIAS-HACK file for instructions.

One more quick note. You only get the alias if ifconfig is called with no
arguments. If called with arguments you get the default behavior. If
there is no alias file you get the default behavior. If there is no alias
in the alias file you get the default behavior.

JM