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From: Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be>
To: Tim Hockin <thockin@sun.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: issue: deleting one IP alias deletes all
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:36:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011024133639.A2225@ping.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BD5AED6.90401C9C@sun.com>
In-Reply-To: <3BD5AED6.90401C9C@sun.com>; from thockin@sun.com on Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:54:30AM -0700

On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:54:30AM -0700, Tim Hockin wrote:
> So we've noticed, and taken issue with this behavior.
> 
> If you have several IP aliases on an interface (eth0:0, eth0:1, eth0:2) you
> get inconsistent behavior when downing them.
> 
> * if I 'ifconfig down' eth0:1, I am left with eth0:0 and eth0:2
> * if I 'ifconfig down' eth0:0, eth0:1 and eth0:2 go away, too

This was reported ages ago too.

>From what I remember, because eth0:x is an AF_INET hack only, you
should only do a down of it with an AF_INET socket.  Some
versions of ifconfig did it with a socket of the wrong type,
which resulted in the whole interface going down.

Which version of ifconfig (nettools) are you using?


Kurt


  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-24 11:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-23 17:54 issue: deleting one IP alias deletes all Tim Hockin
2001-10-24 11:36 ` Kurt Roeckx [this message]
2001-10-24 12:00   ` Kurt Roeckx
2001-10-25 16:30 ` Matthew G. Marsh
2001-10-26 19:51   ` Michal Jaegermann
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-24  1:01 Julian Anastasov
2001-10-24  5:28 ` David Ford
2001-10-24  6:18   ` Petr Titera
2001-10-24  6:52     ` David Ford
2001-10-24 12:48     ` Wilson
2001-10-25 16:34     ` Matthew G. Marsh
2001-10-24  8:19   ` Julian Anastasov
2001-10-24 14:02   ` Christopher Friesen
2001-10-24 15:34     ` Tim Hockin
2001-10-24 17:14       ` Christopher Friesen
2001-10-24 20:36     ` David Ford
2001-10-24 20:54       ` Tim Hockin
2001-10-27 17:26         ` kuznet
2001-10-25 17:40       ` Matthew G. Marsh
2001-10-25 20:01         ` Tim Hockin
2001-10-25 19:56           ` David S. Miller
2001-10-25 20:29           ` Andi Kleen

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