From 1787e2246504d4252d2f42d2aac609c844c4cfe5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:56:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ifconfig: support (by ignoring it) "inet" before IP address
 or hostname

---
 networking/ifconfig.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/networking/ifconfig.c b/networking/ifconfig.c
index f4fc0a476..96af7b770 100644
--- a/networking/ifconfig.c
+++ b/networking/ifconfig.c
@@ -387,6 +387,8 @@ int ifconfig_main(int argc, char **argv)
 						}
 #endif
 						else {
+							if (strcmp(host, "inet") == 0)
+								continue; /* compat stuff */
 							len_and_sockaddr *lsa = xhost2sockaddr(host, 0);
 #if ENABLE_FEATURE_IPV6
 							if (lsa->sa.sa_family == AF_INET6) {